Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . uminations and panel pictures had learnt allsorts of things about light and shade and landscapeand flesh painting that did not come at all easilyto the worker in glass and lead, and were of nohelp to him in his task of beautifying was inevitable that he should make someattempt to follow in the cry, and the extent towhich he succeeded is amazing; but from hence-forth, even where he most succeeds, it is to someextent by a tour de force^ by a compromisebetween For the first part of the century, as I have sai
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . uminations and panel pictures had learnt allsorts of things about light and shade and landscapeand flesh painting that did not come at all easilyto the worker in glass and lead, and were of nohelp to him in his task of beautifying was inevitable that he should make someattempt to follow in the cry, and the extent towhich he succeeded is amazing; but from hence-forth, even where he most succeeds, it is to someextent by a tour de force^ by a compromisebetween For the first part of the century, as I have said, fifteenth ^^ number of windows produced in France seems century ^ work, to have been few. Such events as the disaster ofAgincourt, the conquest of France by Henry V.,and its deliverance by Joan of Arc can have leftlittle money or thought for stained-glass win-dows. The names of the maitres verriers of thecathedrals show that all through the time there PLATE XLVII DRAPERY FROM SLEEVE OF WEST END OF ST. VINCENTS. ROUEN Fifteenth Century.
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