Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . I- 1^ i. THE STYLE OF THE SECOND PERIOD 149 now be stained yellow, rendered it on the wholethe most suitable glass for the purpose, and we findit holding the field down to the late sixteenthcentury, when a pinkish enamel began to be used. (8) The use of Painted Diaper Patterns on the PaintedColoured Backgrounds.—The red and blue back- ^^p®^^*grounds to the figures in the twelfth and thirteenthcenturies needed no further decoration. Theirown depth and quaUty was enough in itself, butthe thinner, flatter tones that succeeded themneeded enric
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . I- 1^ i. THE STYLE OF THE SECOND PERIOD 149 now be stained yellow, rendered it on the wholethe most suitable glass for the purpose, and we findit holding the field down to the late sixteenthcentury, when a pinkish enamel began to be used. (8) The use of Painted Diaper Patterns on the PaintedColoured Backgrounds.—The red and blue back- ^^p®^^*grounds to the figures in the twelfth and thirteenthcenturies needed no further decoration. Theirown depth and quaUty was enough in itself, butthe thinner, flatter tones that succeeded themneeded enriching and giving texture to, in orderto throw the figures up into proper relief; or sothe fourteenth century artist seems to have felt,for from the beginning we find his backgroundsusually covered with a diaper painted in enamel. The method is always the same; the groundhaving been covered with an even coat of enamel,the pattern is scratched out clear with the pointof a stick or a brush handle. Plates XVI., XX.,XXI. are typical examples, and show in detail
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