Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . the Cathedralwindows beginning from the west at the first windowof the new work done by him, which sounds as ifthe west end had been already glazed. Indeed thefragments there are more like the eastern windows(the earliest, if I am right) in New College ante-chapel, while in the fragments that remain in the sidewindows of the nave the later hand can be traced,though the tendency in the canopies of these is toassimilategradually to the regularPerpendiculartypewhich by this time had been developed elsewhere. Winston thinks the west window of
Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France . the Cathedralwindows beginning from the west at the first windowof the new work done by him, which sounds as ifthe west end had been already glazed. Indeed thefragments there are more like the eastern windows(the earliest, if I am right) in New College ante-chapel, while in the fragments that remain in the sidewindows of the nave the later hand can be traced,though the tendency in the canopies of these is toassimilategradually to the regularPerpendiculartypewhich by this time had been developed elsewhere. Winston thinks the west window of theCathedral may have been glazed in the timeof William of Wykehams predecessor. BishopEdington, in which case it is not unlikely that it andthe east windows of the antechapel at New Collegewere the work of Thomass master, whose style wasfurther developed and improved by Thomas himself. 27 XIIITHE STYLE OF THE THIRD PERIOD PLATE XXXIX FIGURE, FROM VISITING THE PRISOXERS,IN -ACTS OF MERCY •? WINDOW, ALL SAINTS. NORTH STREET, YORK Fifteenth Century. schools. XIII THE STYLE OF THE THIRD PERIOD A NOTABLE feature of the fifteenth century is the Divergencedivergence which takes place in it between the En^^iishandstyles of English and French stained glass. FrenchAlthough in some respects they develop alongparallel lines the two no longer form, as they didalmost to the end of the fourteenth century, oneschool. The Hundred Years War has done itswork, and produced a separation of spirit for whichthe world has, perhaps, been the poorer ever since. Indeed for the first half of the fifteenth century,during which the best of the English work wasdone, the quantity of stained glass produced inFrance seems to have been almost negligible, anda comparison of the conditions of the two countriesis a sufficient explanation of this fact. WhileEngland was becoming rich and prosperous anddeveloping her foreign trade, France was laid 213 214 STAINED GLASS waste by war and struggling to free herself fr
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