Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who produces designs in color on or in glass.
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Examples
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As both a glass-painter and a glass-stainer, Peckitt used color in different ways to create designs. reference The glass base or substrate could be clear or colored; other, different-colored glasses could be fired onto it.
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At the period Mr Ballantine began his career as a glass-painter, the art had greatly degenerated in character; and the position to which it has of late years attained is chiefly owing to his good taste and archæological researches.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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The glass-painter and monk, Werinher, who was also the goldsmith of Tegernsee, made the double doors of the cathedral of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In Paris Cousin continued his eminent career as a glass-painter, and his masterpiece, the windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Vincennes, are considered the finest examples of glass-painting in all France.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Among his friends were the great physicist Fraunhofer and the Viennese glass-painter Molin, who bore enthusiastic testimony to the excellence of Frank's colouring, especially his reds and his flesh colour.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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The son was in 1490 apprenticed for seven years to a glass-painter from Casale, named Spanzotti, and with him the young Sodoma went to Milan, where he came under the influence of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Dear Master Wolf Stromer, -- My most gracious lord of Salzburg has sent me a letter by the hand of his glass-painter.
Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907
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To cut the matter short, there was a similar note, as I may call it, in each of the other lights; and that made it plain to me that the glass-painter had had very strict orders from Abbot Thomas about the inscription and had taken pains to get it correct.
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When the Perpendicular style was in vogue the art of the glass-painter degenerated, as did that of the architect.
English Villages 1892
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As the style of architecture changed, so the art of the glass-painter changed with it.
English Villages 1892
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