Stained glass of the middle ages in England and France (1913) (14776413861)

Identifier: stainedglassofmi00arno (find matches)
Title: Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Arnold, Hugh Saint, Lawrence Bradford, 1885-
Subjects: Glass painting and staining -- England Glass painting and staining -- France Art, Medieval
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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teenth century windowsst^Denir^ at Chartres, St. Denis, Canterbury and Sens showand Canter- such resemblance to each other that there can be*^ little doubt of their common origin. As, however, their execution covers a period of at least seventyyears, one man cannot have been responsible forthem all. Probably they represent the work of a group ofmen working together—perhaps never more thanhalf a dozen at one time—under a master who wastrained by his predecessor, and who in turn wouldbe succeeded in the leadership by the best of hispupils. Several of these masters in successionmust have been men of genius, and thus betweenthem they evolved a style which, carried on by asuccession of lesser men, gov^erned design in stainedglass for a century to come. The rise of this school is the first of the periodicimpulses to which I have referred, and the workthey produced was, for its dignity and grandeur, PLATE VII BORDER, FROM THE TRINITY CHAPEL, CANTERBURY Twelfth or early Thirteenth Century
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TSVELFTH CENTURY GLASS 45 unequalled for two hundred years—if it has everbeen equalled at all. The figure of Methuselah or Matusale inPlate III., which is one of the few remaining ofthe original figures once in the choir clerestoryat Canterbury (it is now in the S. Transept), is agood example of their work, and a comparison of itwith the Poitiers window (which is actually laterin date but in the older style) shows the greatnessof the change they effected. The change is, infact, that from ancient to modern art: fromByzantine, the last lingering survival of the greatclassic tradition of Greece, to Gothic, the firstexpression of the art of the modern world. AVho were these men and where did they comefrom ? Some would have it that there was a greatcentral school at Chartres, but there is little evidencefor it. When Abbot Suger built the gi-eat abbeyof St. Denis, which was dedicated in 1142, he filledit with glass, painted, says his secretary, MonkWilliam, with exquisite art by many mast