Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass. Lewis F. Day
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Lewis F. Day
Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066186296
Table of Contents
NOTE IN REFERENCE TO ILLUSTRATIONS.
WINDOWS, A BOOK ABOUT STAINED GLASS BOOK I.
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNINGS OF GLASS.
CHAPTER II. THE MAKING OF A WINDOW.
CHAPTER IV. EARLY MOSAIC WINDOWS.
CHAPTER V. PAINTED MOSAIC GLASS.
CHAPTER VI. GLASS PAINTING (MEDIÆVAL) .
CHAPTER VII. GLASS PAINTING (RENAISSANCE) .
CHAPTER VIII. ENAMEL PAINTING.
CHAPTER IX. THE NEEDLE POINT IN GLASS PAINTING.
CHAPTER X. THE RESOURCES OF THE GLASS PAINTER—A RECAPITULATION.
CHAPTER XI. THE DESIGN OF EARLY GLASS.
CHAPTER XII. MEDALLION WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XIII. EARLY GRISAILLE.
CHAPTER XIV. WINDOWS OF MANY LIGHTS.
CHAPTER XV. MIDDLE GOTHIC GLASS.
CHAPTER XVI. LATE GOTHIC WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XVII. SIXTEENTH CENTURY WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XVIII. LATER RENAISSANCE WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XX. LANDSCAPE IN GLASS.
CHAPTER XXII. TRACERY LIGHTS AND ROSE WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XXIII. QUARRY WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XXV. THE USE OF THE CANOPY.
CHAPTER XXVI. A PLEA FOR ORNAMENT.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STYLE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. STYLE IN MODERN GLASS (A POSTSCRIPT) .
CHAPTER XXXI. HOW TO SEE WINDOWS.
CHAPTER XXXII. WINDOWS WORTH SEEING.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A WORD ON RESTORATION.
PREFACE.
A stained glass window is itself the best possible illustration of the difference it makes whether we look at a thing from this side or from that. Gœthe used this particular image in one of his little parables, comparing poems to painted windows, dark and dull from the market-place, bright with colour and alive with meaning only when we have crossed the threshold of the church.
I may claim to have entered the sanctuary, and not irreverently. My earliest training in design was in the workshops of artists in stained glass. For many years I worked exclusively at glass design, and for over a quarter of a century I have spent great part of my leisure in hunting glass all Europe over.
This book has grown out of my experience. It makes no claim to learnedness. It tells only what the windows have told me, or what I understood them to say. I have gone to glass to get pleasure out of it, to learn something from it, to find out the way it was done, and why it was done so, and what might yet perhaps be done. Anything apart from that did not so much interest me. Those, therefore, who desire minuter and more precise historic information must consult the works of Winston, Mr. Westlake, and the many continental authorities, with whose learned writings this more practical, and, in a sense, popular, volume does not enter into any sort of competition.
My point of view is that of art and workmanship, or, more precisely speaking, workmanship and art, workmanship being naturally the beginning and root of art. We are workmen first and artists afterwards—perhaps.