Stained glass of the middle ages in England and France (1913) (14779644945)

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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combination of figure work and grisaille. (4) The extraordinary development of thecanopy. (5) The style of drawing the figure. (6) The use of natural plant forms in ornament. (7) The quality of the glass, and the coloursused. (8) The use of painted diaper patterns on thecoloured backgrounds. (1) The SiniplificatioJi of the Iron-Work.—Thewindows of the twelfth century had been hugesingle lights, but the thirteenth century had seenthe gradual evolution of tracery, beginning with thegrouping of lancets in pairs under a rose light above.Gradually each lancet was again subdivided intoa pair of lights and a rose, the spandrils werepierced, till, at the close of the century, the glazierhad to design his window to fit a row of narrowlancets divided by slender mullions, which aboveTracery, branched into an elaborate mass of tracery containinga multitude of roses, quatrefoils, trefoils and Uttle PLATE XXIII ST. BARNABAS,FROM CLERESTORY OF NAVE OF ST. PIERRE, CHARTRES Early Fourteenth Century
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THE STYLE OF THE SECOND PERIOD 129 openings of all shapes and sizes. With this divisionof the ^vindow into comparatively narrow hghts theneed for the elaborate iron lattice of the precedingage disappeared, its work being now largely takenup by the stone-work. Instead of lights from sixto nine feet wide the glazier had now to deal withlights three and a half feet wide at most, and oftenmuch narrower, and in consequence aU that wasnecessary was a series of horizontal bars connectingthe muUions, which themselves take the place ofthe upright bars of former days. In windows of Thethis time, then, and later, massive rebated bars arefixed horizontally in the stone-work at intervals ofbetween three and four feet, and these with themullions really form the framework into the squareopenings of which the panels of the glazing wereinserted separately. Between, and parallel with,these massive bars, three or four Hght saddle-bars are fixed on the inside of the glass, whichkeep the panel in its plac


Français : Vitrail de saint-Barnabé, claire-voie de la nef, église Saint-Pierre de Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France).