. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. ngle lancets of the thirteenth century arefilled in five different ways: either by a figureunder a simple low-crowned canopy, or by smallmedallions and panels, or by a Jesse tree; theother two kinds of windows are those of whiteglass painted with grisaille patterns in dark brownenamel paint and generally enriched with littlepieces of colour, and the plain glazed whitewindows with patterns outlined by the leads. The clerestory is filled with huge fig
. Storied windows; a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the renaissance, especially in France. ngle lancets of the thirteenth century arefilled in five different ways: either by a figureunder a simple low-crowned canopy, or by smallmedallions and panels, or by a Jesse tree; theother two kinds of windows are those of whiteglass painted with grisaille patterns in dark brownenamel paint and generally enriched with littlepieces of colour, and the plain glazed whitewindows with patterns outlined by the leads. The clerestory is filled with huge figures underlow-topped canopies surrounded by the broad col-oured border characteristic of Early Gothic glass. In the lower windows the Early Gothic glazierallowed the saddle-bars across the window to re-strict his design, and so he naturally used smallmedallions and half medallions and panels, in thestyle which commenced in the twelfth century, butcontinued in the thirteenth century ; although soonafter the beginning of the thirteenth century thestraight saddle-bars were generally replaced by anetwork of iron shaped to enclose the medallions. trovp:s cathedral. Tiiikteenth-Ckntiuv Fi;Ki>iNt; oi- thk Fivk Tiioi sand. EARLY GOTHIC—13th CENTURY 33 and panels. Tlie interstices between the panelsand medallions and the borders were filled up witha pattern, which in England usually takes the formof a floral scroll (see Days illustration in Windows/1st edition, p. 132), and in France of a geometricalpattern mostly of blue and red resembling a Scotchplaid. The difference between France and Englandin this point may be noticed at Chartres, wherethere are only five or six instances of the Eng-lish floral scroll, and at Canterbury, where onlyone window has the French diaper. In thethirteenth century, each light is surrounded by abroad coloured border, and each medallion has alsoa separate border round it. If there is any canopyin a thirteenth-century window, it is small andinsig
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