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Book The Illuminated Window

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  • Author : Virginia Chieffo Raguin
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2024-02-01
  • ISBN : 1789148103
  • Pages : 445 pages

Download or read book The Illuminated Window written by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated guide to the diverse traditions of stained glass art throughout history. The Illuminated Window is a unique journey through stained-glass installations across history. From the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, we find in windows stories of conflict, commemoration, devotion, and celebration. Virginia Chieffo Raguin is our guide through the cathedrals of Chartres, Canterbury, and Cologne as well as Paris’s Sainte-Chapelle, Swiss guildhalls, Iran’s Pink Mosque, Harvard Memorial Hall, Tiffany’s chapel for the World Exposition, Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses, and more. In her telling, stained glass relies on more than a single maker but on the relationship between the physical site, the patron’s aims, the work’s legibility for the spectator, and the prevailing style of the era. This is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume for anyone interested in stained-glass works.

Book The Illuminated Window

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  • Author : Joseph A. Gainer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book The Illuminated Window written by Joseph A. Gainer and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lighted Window

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  • Author : Peter Davidson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11
  • ISBN : 9781851245147
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Lighted Window written by Peter Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England.Surveying a wide range of material, the book extends, chronologically, from early romantic painting to contemporary fiction, and geographically, from the Low Countries to Japan. It features familiar lighted windows in English literature (in the works of poets such as Thomas Hardy and Matthew Arnold and in the novels of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kenneth Grahame) and examines the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson Grimshaw and the ruralist Samuel Palmer. It also considers Japanese prints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; German romanticism in painting, poetry and music; Proust and the painters of the French belle époque; René Magritte's 'L'Empire des Lumières'; and North American painters such as Edward Hopper and Linden Frederick. By interpreting the interactions of art, literature and geography around this evocative motif, Peter Davidson shows how it has inspired an extraordinary variety of moods and ideas, from the romantic period to the present day.

Book The Art of Decorating Show Windows and Displaying Merchandise

Download or read book The Art of Decorating Show Windows and Displaying Merchandise written by Lewis A. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Gas Light Journal

Download or read book The American Gas Light Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stories in Light

Download or read book Stories in Light written by Nancy Cavadini and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame contains one of the largest collections of late nineteenth-century French stained glass outside of France. The French Gothic-inspired church has forty-four large stained glass windows containing two hundred and twenty scenes. Today, more than 100,000 visitors tour the basilica each year to admire its architecture or participate in the beautiful liturgies. Honoring both the Sacred Heart and the Virgin Mary, the vibrant windows have, for more than a century, drawn visitors and worshippers alike into a conversation with the art and faith found in the windows. This informative and conveniently sized guidebook tells the unique story of the windows: the improbable creation of a glassworks by cloistered Carmelite nuns in LeMans, France, and their stained glass that so perfectly illuminated the late nineteenth-century French Catholic spirituality of the Congregation of Holy Cross, who established the University of Notre Dame. The words of Father Edward Sorin, CSC, founder of the university, are featured throughout the text. He saw the basilica and its windows as an avenue for teaching this spirituality. The book describes the windows according to their location in the building, from the narthex at the entrance to the Lady Chapel behind the altar. Full-color photographs provide a detailed view of the scenes found in each window. These photos are accompanied by informed commentary on the historical and theological importance of the windows, the iconography of featured saints, and how they illuminate the work of the Holy Cross to educate both mind and spirit. Stories in Light is an easy-to-read book written for all who visit the basilica, including faculty, students, alumni, and friends and family of Notre Dame, and for readers everywhere who want to know more about the rich history and heritage of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart's stained glass.

Book Modern Electrical Illumination

Download or read book Modern Electrical Illumination written by Cyril Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merchants Record and Show Window

Download or read book Merchants Record and Show Window written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Electrical Engineer of Australia   New Zealand

Download or read book Electrical Engineer of Australia New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collected papers

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  • Author : Gladwyn Kingsley Noble
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Collected papers written by Gladwyn Kingsley Noble and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illuminated Paris

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  • Author : Hollis Clayson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-05-16
  • ISBN : 022659386X
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Illuminated Paris written by Hollis Clayson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower’s nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplify our fantasies of Parisian nightlife. Though we reflect longingly on such scenes, in Illuminated Paris, Hollis Clayson shows that there’s more to these clichés than meets the eye. In this richly illustrated book, she traces the dramatic evolution of lighting in Paris and how artists responded to the shifting visual and cultural scenes that resulted from these technologies. While older gas lighting produced a haze of orange, new electric lighting was hardly an improvement: the glare of experimental arc lights—themselves dangerous—left figures looking pale and ghoulish. As Clayson shows, artists’ representations of these new colors and shapes reveal turn-of-the-century concerns about modernization as electric lighting came to represent the harsh glare of rapidly accelerating social change. At the same time, in part thanks to American artists visiting the city, these works of art also produced our enduring romantic view of Parisian glamour and its Belle Époque.

Book Light

Download or read book Light written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Principles and practice of Roentgenological technique

Download or read book The Principles and practice of Roentgenological technique written by Isaac Seth Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stained Glass Window Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright

Download or read book Stained Glass Window Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright written by Dennis Casey and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen full-page designs adapted from windows in Wright buildings: Robie House, Dana House, Coonley Playhouse, many more. Geometrics, florals, etc. Color and hang near light source for glowing stained glass effects.

Book Electrical Engineering

Download or read book Electrical Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Standing Room Only

Download or read book Standing Room Only written by William Le Roy Stidger and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: