. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. d of Renaissance glass pictures is inthe time of Henry the Eighth and of Edward theSixth in England, and of Francois Premier andHenri Deux in France, during the first half of thesixteenth century. During this period the mostrefined and beautiful of all glass pictures wereproduced, but they were essentially pictorial instyle; in fact, the pictures are so beautiful thatthey cause an almost complete forgetfulness of thematerial of which they are made.
. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. d of Renaissance glass pictures is inthe time of Henry the Eighth and of Edward theSixth in England, and of Francois Premier andHenri Deux in France, during the first half of thesixteenth century. During this period the mostrefined and beautiful of all glass pictures wereproduced, but they were essentially pictorial instyle; in fact, the pictures are so beautiful thatthey cause an almost complete forgetfulness of thematerial of which they are made. Yet the Gothicglazier, with his mosaic of gorgeously-coloured glass,did influence and restrain the Renaissance painter,who in his turn added beauty to the Gothic glasspictures by the exquisite drawing of the faces, thehigh relief, and the atmospheric effect; On this point Winston, in Hints on Glass Paint-ing, page 189, says : The relief is most remarkablewhen the picture is represented as seen beneathan archway. The front face of the arch forms amass of strong light, and is thus brought pro-minently forward, w^hile the inside of the archway. SAINTK MADKLKIXi:. TROVES. On , St Eloi is alms. On rii;ht, the people of Xovon ask the Golds>uSt Eloi to become their Hishop. Fine early Renaissance. 1506. See p. 272. RENAISSANCE GLASS, 1500-1550 51 is kept in deep shadow. The group of figuresstanding just within the threshold of the archwayis very prominent, owing to the vivid colouringand strong lights and shadows. Above the archwayis a light grey blue sky on which a small distantlandscape is delicately painted. The sky by its tintforms a background which throws forward thedarkly-shaded archway and the group, thus pro-ducing the greatest effect of atmosphere possible inglass painting. In the glass pictures of the Renaissance period,the architectural crocketed canopy of the late Gothicstyle becomes a frame of golden arabesques of aremarkably beautiful hue, being generall
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