Download or read book Seeing Renaissance Glass written by Sarah M. Dillon and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass--whether it be depictions of glass or actual glass in the form of stained glass, gilded glass, and transparent glass--to resonate with the period's complex visuality and achieve their artistic goals.
Download or read book Seeing Renaissance Glass written by Sarah Dillon and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass--whether it be depictions of glass or actual glass in the form of stained glass, gilded glass, and transparent glass--to resonate with the period's complex visuality and achieve their artistic goals.
Download or read book Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice written by W. Patrick McCray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key topics, including the nature of Renaissance demand for certain luxury goods, the interaction between industry and government in the Renaissance, and technological change as a social process. McCray places in its broader economic and cultural context a craft and industry that has been traditionally viewed primarily through the surviving artefacts held in museum collections.McCray explores the social and economic context of glassmaking in Venice, from the guild and state level down to the workings of the individual glass house. He tracks the dissemination of Venetian-style glassmaking throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its effects on Venice's glass industry. Integrating evidence from a wide variety of sources - written documents such as shop records and recipe books, pictorial representations of glass and glassmaking, and the careful physical and chemical analysis of glass pieces that have survived to the present - he examines the relation between consumer demand and technological change. In the process, he traces the organizational changes that signified a transition from an older and more traditional manner of 'artisan' manufacture to a modern, 'factory-style' manner of production.
Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Glass from New England Collections written by Busch-Reisinger Museum and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Light on Renaissance Glass in England written by Robert Jesse Charleston and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Windows written by Lewis Foreman Day and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel through the history of stained and painted glass with this text. Learn about types of mosaics, Grisaille and Gothic styles and other decorative techniques utilizing glass.
Download or read book A Stained Glass Tour in Italy written by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Age of Venetian Glass written by Hugh Tait and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The virtuosity of the glassware produced in the Venetian workshops is one of the most remarkable aspects of the Italian Renaissance. This account is illustrated with over two hundred examples drawn from the British Museum's superb collections of Venetial glass.
Download or read book Windows A Book About Stained Painted Glass written by Lewis F. Day and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book about the art of windows painting and staining is an important source for practical and historical information. It is an overview of researching the art, history, and technical aspects of stained and painted glass. A reader can learn a lot about church windows, firms, artists, and designs.
Download or read book Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes written by Vincent Ilardi and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. "By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western and central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today." Eyeglasses served an important technological function at both the intellectual and practical level, not only easing the textual studies of scholars but also easing the work of craftsmen/small bus. During the 15th cent. two crucial developments occurred: the ability to grind convex lenses for various levels of presbyopia and the ability to grind concave lenses for the correction of myopia. As a result, eyeglasses could be made almost to prescription by the early 17th cent. Illus.
Download or read book Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum written by Paul Williamson and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-overdue volume showcases the Victoria and Albert Museum's outstanding holdings of stained and painted glass--a peerless collection ranging in date from c.1140 to 1540. The works include important examples from England, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy. More than 100 color plates and selected color details show the full range of this magnificent collection, from large panels from key churches and cathedrals such as La Sainte-Chapelle, St. Germain des pres, Cologne, Bruges, Canterbury, and Winchester to small but no less beautiful fragments. Commentaries on each of the pieces reconstruct their original context and explain their imagery; the text discusses techniques, themes, and major centers of production, illuminating a golden age of stained glass production, this beautiful book provides an indispensable introduction to the subject.
Download or read book The Arts of Fire written by Catherine Hess and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance easily fall under the spell of its achievements: its self-confident humanism, its groundbreaking scientific innovations, its ravishing artistic production. Yet many of the developments in Italian ceramics and glass were made possible by Italy's proximity to the Islamic world. The Arts of Fire underscores how central the Islamic influence was on this luxury art of the Italian Renaissance. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum on view from May 4 to August 5, 2004, The Arts of Fire demonstrates how many of the techniques of glass and ceramic production and ornamentation were first developed in the Islamic East between the eighth and twelfth centuries. These techniques - enamel and gilding on glass and tin-glaze and lustre on ceramics - produced brilliant and colourful decoration that was a source of awe and admiration, transforming these crafts, for the first time, into works of art and true luxury commodities. Essays by Catherine Hess, George Saliba, and Linda Komaroff demonstrate early modern Europe's debts to the Islamic world and help us better understand the interrelationships of cultures over time.
Download or read book Strawberry Hill written by Michael Peover and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Walpole's little gothic castle of Strawberry Hill at Twickenham is a jewel in the suburbs of west London. It was the passion of Walpole, collector, author, dilettante and the youngest son of Britain's first prime minister, who turned it into the most important and influential building of the early gothic revival. Walpole assembled a large collection of over 450 pieces of stained glass at Strawberry Hill, insipiring a craze among his contemporaries for the setting of ancient glass as a fashionable addition to a home. An early description of the house said that it had the sparkle of 'a harlequin's coat chequered with all the colours of the rainbow'. Walpole included heraldic blazons and decorative roundels as well as new commissions from English Glaziers such as William Price the Younger and William Peckitt, who were reviving what was considered at that time a lost art. This eclectic collection of stained glass is currently being extensively renovated and reset in accordance with Walpole's original intentions, as part of the Strawberry Hill restoration project. AUTHOR: Dr Michael Peover is Glass Consultant at Strawberry Hill and former Librarian of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. 50 colour illustrations
Download or read book Glass from Antiquity to the Renaissance written by Giovanni Mariacher and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Culture and Technology of Glass in Renaissance Venice written by William Patrick McCray and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stained Glass of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters and published by . This book was released on with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French Enameled Glass of the Renaissance written by Suzanne Gaynor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
