Irish Stained Glass Artists and Manufacturers - British and Irish Stained Glass (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In early 19th century Britain, beginning with an armorial window created by Thomas Willement in 1811-12, there was a revival of the art and craft of stained glass window manufacture. This revival gained impetus until stained glass windows became a such a common and popular form of coloured pictorial representation that many thousands of people, most of whom would never commission or purchase a painting, contributed to the commission and purchase of stained glass windows for their parish church. Within fifty years of the beginnings of commercial manufacture in the 1830s, British stained glass grew into an enormous and specialised industry, with important centres in Newcastle, Birmingham, Whitechapel in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Norwich and Dublin. The industry flourished in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. By 1900 British windows had been installed in Copenhagen, Venice, Athens, Bangalore, Nagasaki, Manila and Wellington. After the "Great War", 1914-1918, stained glass design was to change radically. Section references- The "Bishop's Eye", (1320) at Lincoln Cathedral, is filled with salvaged fragments.During the Medieval period following the Norman conquest of England in 1066, many churches, abbeys and cathedrals were built, firstly in the Norman (or Romanesque) style, then in the Gothic style which was to become increasingly elaborate and decorative. In these churches the windows were generally either large or in multiples so that the light within the building was maximised. The windows were glazed, frequently with coloured glass held in place by strips of lead. Because flat glass could only be manufactured in small pieces, the method of glazing lent itself to patterning. The pictorial representation of bibl... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7690332