Stained Glass From its Origins to the Present

by Raguin, Virginia Chieffo

• ISBN13: 9780810946446
• ISBN10: 0810946440
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Raguin and Pongracz offer a detailed and lavish review of the styles, designs, practitioners, tools, and techniques of stained glass and give the complete history of this exquisite medium.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(4)
1 Symbol and Story: The Art of Stained Glass	10	(22)
2 Origins, Materials, and the Glazier's Art (by Mary Clerkin Higgins)	32	(24)
3 The Revival of Monumental Architecture and the Place of Glass	56	(28)
4 The Age of Great Cathedrals: The Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries	84	(28)
5 Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Narrative	112	(30)
6 Large-Scale Renaissance Stained Glass	142	(26)
7 The Revival of Stained Glass in the United Kingdom and the United States	168	(28)
8 Historic Revivals in Germany, France, Belgium, and Italy	196	(28)
9 The Opalescent, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts Movements	224	(28)
10 The Glass of the Twentieth Century	252	(30)
Glossary	282	(1)
Bibliography	283	(4)
Index	287