Investigations in medieval stained glass : materials, methods, and expressions /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]. ©2019 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 499 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reading medieval sources, 2589-2509 ; Volume 3 Reading medieval sources ; v. 3. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12649248 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Table of contents; List of Figures; Glossary; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Stained Glass as a Source; 2 Translatio; 3 Stained-Glass Research in the 21st Century; 4 The Organizational Armature; Bibliography; Part 1 Visual and Documentary Testimonies; Chapter 1 The Medieval Glazier at Work; 1 Theophilus and the Historiography of the Medieval Craft; 2 Building the Walls of the Heavenly Jerusalem; 3 Patrons and Patterns; 4 Making the Window; 4.1 The Glazier's Table; 4.2 Cutting the Glass; 4.3 Painting the Glass; 4.4 Further Embellishments: Applied and Inserted Jewels, Abrasion
- 4.5 Firing the Glass4.6 Reassembling and Glazing the Panels: Lead and Solder; 4.7 Fixing the Windows: Stone and Iron, Masons and Blacksmiths; 5 "Walls Like Unto Clear Glass"; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Early History of Stained Glass; 1 Roman Glass; 2 Early Medieval Evidence; 3 Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon Evidence; 4 Carolingian Examples; 5 Expansion in the 10th-12th Centuries; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Longing for the Heavens: Romanesque Stained Glass in the Plantagenet Domain; 1 Overview of Romanesque Stained Glass
- 2 The Weight of the Lost Legacy: Stained-Glass Windows in the West Before 11003 The Oldest Stained-Glass Windows and their Characteristics; 4 After 1150; 4.1 Poitiers and Le. Mans; 4.2 Chemillé-sur-Indrois; 4.3 Chenu; 5 The Final Lights; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Chartres: Glazing the Cathedral; 1 Stained Glass and Relics; 2 Creation of the Stained-Glass Windows; 3 Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Design and Execution in Southern German Stained Glass of the Late Middle Ages and the Age of Dürer; 1 Nuremberg: a Model That Can be Applied Elsewhere; 2 Augsburg; 3 Strasbourg, Freiburg, and Basel
- 4 ConclusionBibliography; Part 2 Light and the Aperture; Chapter 6 A Matter of Matter: Transparent
- Translucent
- Diaphanum in the Medium of Stained Glass; 1 Translucent and Transparent; 2 The Types of Light; 3 The Phenomenon of the Stained-Glass Window; 4 Diaphanum; 5 Medium; 6 Diaphanum and Claritas; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Stained Glass and the Gothic Interior in the 12th and 13th Centuries; 1 Developmental Narratives: Illumination and the Refinements of the Wall Elevation; 2 "Transcendental Twilight"; 3 The Revelation of Chartres; 4 White and Grisaille Glass in 13th-Century Buildings
- 5 Illumination and Visibility6 Sight Lines and Scenography, Revealing and Concealing; 7 Audiences in. Motion; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Windows in Domestic Settings in France in the Late Middle Ages: Enclosure and Decoration in the Social Living Space; 1 Windows in the Late Middle Ages: Nature, Function, Structure; 2 The Window and its Decoration; 3 The Symbols of the Master of the House; 4 The Roundel: Archetype of Domestic Stained Glass in the Late Middle Ages; 5 More Ambitious Forms; 6 The Transformation of the Window and the Disappearance of Domestic Stained Glass in France