Up: Glassmaking
Stained Glass 4 of 29
|
|
| |
THE MENTOR . . . . DEPARTMENT OF ART
SERIAL NUMBER 192
S T A I N E D G L A S S
By IDA J. BURGESS
Artist and Author
MENTOR GRAVURES
ROSE WINDOW, CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS, FRANCE
·
EAST WINDOW, GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, FRANCE
·
CHOIR WINDOW, CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO, ROME
|
Courtesy of the Tiffany Studios
THE RUSSELL SAGE MEMORIAL WINDOW
First Presbyterian Church, Far Rockaway, N.Y.,
Executed in Tiffany Favrile Glass
|
MENTOR GRAVURES
MOSES AND THE LAW, FLEMISH GLASS
·
ST. ROCH, WITH DONOR AND ANGEL, GLASS OF THE RHINELAND
·
FLORAL WINDOW BY JOHN LA FARGE
|
RAVELERS in the age of pilgrimages were
accustomed to pass many hours in the cathedrals, gazing in wonder and
delight at the windows of stained glass. They did not experience half
as much difficulty in reading the stories told in those windows as we
do, when we go on pleasant pilgrimages in foreign lands, because they
were quite able to recognize all their dear saints by their symbols,
if not by their faces. Naturally enough there was considerable variety
in the way artists of various countries portrayed them.
Occasionally pilgrims would discover some
incident quite new to them in the history of a saint . . . the story of
a miracle, unheard of before, perhaps performed by a patron-saint. The
delight felt by the fourteenth-century pilgrim in the representation of
another miracle attributed to his own particular saint, must have been
very like the sensation experienced by a lover of stained glass of our
time, on finding in his wanderings another window dating back to the
century when glass
|
|