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  2. Gothic cathedrals and churches - Wikipedia

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    The colored glass was delivered to the workshop of the artist, where the window was made. A large whitewashed table was painted with the full-size drawing of the window, with colors indicated. the artisans used a hot iron to crack off pieces of colored glass to fit the pattern, "grazed" or smoothed the edges, then fit them into long strips of lead.

  3. French Gothic stained glass windows - Wikipedia

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    The single chapel contains 670 square meters of stained glass, not counting the later west rose window, and the walls, 20.4 meters high under the vault, appear entirely to be made of glass. This was made possible by moving the supports of the wall, clusters of nine colonettes, to the exterior.

  4. Decoupage - Wikipedia

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    Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...

  5. Building a Gothic cathedral - Wikipedia

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    The faces and other details were painted onto the glass in vitreous enamel colours, which were fired in a kiln to fuse the paint to the glass. The sections were and fixed into the stone mullions of the window. and reinforced with iron bars. [22] In the later Gothic periods, the windows were larger and were painted with more sophisticated ...

  6. Perpendicular Gothic - Wikipedia

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    King's College Chapel, Cambridge, Great East Window (four-centred arch, straight mullions and transoms) The chancel of Gloucester Cathedral (c. 1337–1357). Perpendicular Gothic (also Perpendicular, Rectilinear, or Third Pointed) architecture was the third and final style of English Gothic architecture developed in the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages, typified by large windows ...

  7. Medieval stained glass - Wikipedia

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    Medieval stained glass is the coloured 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).

  8. British and Irish stained glass (1811–1918) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    The stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral are held to be one of the best-preserved and most complete set of medieval stained glass, notably celebrated for their colours, especially their cobalt blue. They cover 2600 square metres in total and consist of 172 bays illustrating biblical scenes, the lives of the saints and scenes from the ...

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