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Stained glass was a pervasive element of buildings, particu- larly ecclesiastical structures, from the 12th through the 16th century; and, as painting and building styles changed, so did the
Stained-glass windows, made up of coloured and painted glass pieces held together by lead strips, were especially popular in Europe in the period between 1150 and 1550, when they were a prominent feature of cathedrals and other churches, as well as city halls and homes for the elite.
The subject is the history of monumental stained glass in the United States, especially its patronage; the civic and religious institutions that saw leaded and painted windows as essential to their purpose.
Many of my publications focus on stained glass, both historic and modern, as in Stained Glass from its Origins to the Present with Abrams (USA) and Thames and Hudson (GB) in 2003. A member of the International Corpus Vitrearum, I have co-authored Stained Glass before 1700 in the Midwest United States (Harvey Miller Press, London, 2002).
14 sie 2022 · For Christendom College’s new chapel, in Front Royal, Virginia, along with the restoration of Munich windows depicting the Nativity and the Resurrection, Beyer is fabricating saint windows...
16 sie 2022 · Also popular are Tiffany-style windows, as seen in St. Nicholas Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, which has an 8-by-15-foot Baptism of Christ window. Grabowski said Tiffany-style, with its opalescent glass, found its way into some churches in the early 20th century.
24 lut 2012 · The article considers stained glass in a broad cultural and material context, encouraging new art-historical approaches to the medium alongside traditional historical, iconographical and ecclesiological methodologies.
