- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A beautifully illustrated guide to the diverse traditions of stained glass art throughout history. The Illuminated Window is a unique journey through stained-glass installations across history. From the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, we find in windows stories of conflict, commemoration, devotion, and celebration. Virginia Chieffo Raguin is our guide through the cathedrals of Chartres, Canterbury, and Cologne as well as Paris's Sainte-Chapelle, Swiss guildhalls, Iran's Pink Mosque, Harvard Memorial Hall, Tiffany's chapel for the World Exposition, Frank Lloyd Wright's houses, and more. In her telling, stained glass relies on more than a single maker but on the relationship between the physical site, the patron's aims, the work's legibility for the spectator, and the prevailing style of the era. This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume for anyone interested in stained-glass works.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Patrons and Process
- 1 Canterbury: A Martyr’s Tomb and Its Cathedral
- 2 Chartres: Representations in an Iconic Gothic Programme
- 3 Sainte-Chapelle, Paris: Propaganda for the Monarch
- 4 Cologne Cathedral: A Building over Time
- 5 All Saints, North Street, York: Instructing a Parish
- 6 St Mary’s Parish Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire: Surviving Iconoclasm
- 7 Renaissance Donors in Switzerland: An Art of Exchange
- 8 Renaissance Roundels: The Transformation of European Image Making
- 9 Harvard University’s Memorial Hall: Honouring the Dead, the Nation and Art
- 10 The Tiffany Chapel: World’s Columbian Exposition
- 11 The Light Screens of Frank Lloyd Wright
- 12 The Spirituality of Abstraction
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index