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Stained glass attributed to Flower include parts of the West Window of St George's Chapel, Windsor, windows in King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and most of the glazing at St Mary's Church, Fairford, which has the most complete set of mediaeval stained glass windows in England.
English Gothic stained glass windows were an important feature of English Gothic architecture, which appeared between the late 12th and late 16th centuries.They evolved from narrow windows filled with a mosaic of deeply-coloured pieces of glass into gigantic windows that filled entire walls, with a full range of colours and more naturalistic figures.
This emphasis on individuals not workshops can be seen more clearly in 14th century stained glass and was probably to increase the speed of production. Analysis of the glasses has shown they were originally the same colour and corroded identically, meaning that all the glass-painters used the same glass.
One of the most prestigious stained glass commissions of the 19th century, the re-glazing of the 13th-century east window of Lincoln Cathedral, Ward and Nixon, 1855. A revival of the art and craft of stained-glass window manufacture took place in early 19th-century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in 1811–12. [1]
The term stained glass is also applied enamelled glass in which the colors have been painted onto the glass and then fused to the glass in a kiln. Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the engineering skills to assemble the piece. A window must fit snugly into the ...
A mosaic /məʊ ˈzejɪk/ is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. [1] Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.
Medieval stained glass is the colored and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).
The designs of the glass displayed rich decoration, an elegance of figures and a precision of gestures not seen before in stained glass. [ 9 ] [ 13 ] The Sainte-Chapelle window styles found an immediate echo in the windows of other 13th century cathedrals and churches, notably Soissons Cathedral , made shortly after Sainte-Chapelle, likely by ...