. The Photographic art-journal . iption. Aman of gentlemanly bearing, of unobtru-sive manners, and of the most kindly dis-position, his death will be deeply felt byhis family and friends ; our estimate of hischaracter is formed upon a knowledge ofhim during twenty years. RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE ART OP PAINTING ON GLASS; OR GLASS-STAINING. BY DR. M. A. GESSERT. INTRODUCTION. HE beautiful art of glasspainting is not only re-stored, in our day, lo theperfect fullness of its an-cient splendor, but alsohas acquired, throughthe giant strides of thescience of chemistry, and the greatprogress latt
. The Photographic art-journal . iption. Aman of gentlemanly bearing, of unobtru-sive manners, and of the most kindly dis-position, his death will be deeply felt byhis family and friends ; our estimate of hischaracter is formed upon a knowledge ofhim during twenty years. RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE ART OP PAINTING ON GLASS; OR GLASS-STAINING. BY DR. M. A. GESSERT. INTRODUCTION. HE beautiful art of glasspainting is not only re-stored, in our day, lo theperfect fullness of its an-cient splendor, but alsohas acquired, throughthe giant strides of thescience of chemistry, and the greatprogress latterly made in the arts ofdesign, an amount of technical andsesthetical power, far exceeaingwhatever could formerly be calledto its aid. Notwithstanding this advantage, how-ever, the art has not reached that widestate of diffusion which, from the exquisiteeffects it is capable of p oducing, it de-serves, and which it attained in the oldentime, even with its then more limited ca-pabilities. 2. This cireumscribed use of glass-paint-. ing can scarcely be accounted for by »comparison of the religious circumstancesof our age with those of the past, or on thesupposition that this art, confining itselfexclusively to exhibition in sacred edificeshad therefore been lost among the f. ivoloustastes which at ptesent prevail. On thecontrary, the works of the finest masters ofthe art have shown that the wonderful ef-fects of glass-painting may be brought intouse for other purposes than the service ofthe Church, aud may be made to satisfynot less the woildly demands of our gene-lation, than the more devotional feelings ofthe middle ages. The obstacles which, on the revival ofthe art, have interposed to check its fur-ther extension, and therefore to diminishalso the general demaud for its productionsare much rather to be attributed to thosein whose hands it rest?, than to anythingproperly belonging to itself; they originatein fact, less in the art than with the artiste 1853. The Photographic Ar
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