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English: This 18th-century stained glass window depicts Elizabeth of Hungary, whose feast day is today. It is located in the City Museum of Ljubljana ( Ljubljana, Slovenia ). Español : Vitral del siglo XVIII que representa a Isabel de Hungría .
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 monk Theophilus Presbyter described glass-production in minute detail early in the 12th century in his treatise Schedula diversum artium - the glass-painter was to trace the composition of a window on a panel of bleached wood, before cutting the glass sections on it and finally painting and assembling them.
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 ...
The most well-preserved set of medieval stained glass windows however, is that of Lye Church; it is the most well-preserved set of medieval stained glass in the Nordic countries. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The style of these windows may have been influenced by English or northern German (possibly Lübeck ) contemporary art.
Detail of Madonna and Child at Church of the Assumption, Bride Street, in Wexford, Ireland. Harry Clarke (1889–1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator.He produced more than 130 stained glass windows, he and his brother Walter having taken over his father's studio after his death in 1921. [1]
Diaper was particularly used in medieval stained glass to increase the vividness of a coloured pane, for example the field in a shield of arms. [1] A stone wall may be decorated with such a pattern sculpted in relief ; in brickwork the effect may be achieved by using bricks of different colours, or by allowing certain bricks to protrude from ...