Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or practice of producing designs in color on or in glass. In glass-painting (or glass-staining, as it is also called) two methods are chiefly employed: the enamel method, consisting in painting on the glass in colors, which are then burned into it;
- n. A painting upon glass; a surface of glass decorated in color by the use of stained glass or painting, or both.
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“Glass painting held a peculiar position among artists and artisan techniques: Independent of the reputation of encaustic painting, it was frequently described as a lost art rediscovered in the eighteenth century. 47 Both the French Council of Commerce and the Society of Arts in London regularly received letters about recovered glass-painting techniques, and both were diligent about investigating presentations.”
“While Peckitt's manuscript includes several recipes for stains or glass-painting colors, there are no instructions for making pot colors. 5 Details of Peckitt's processes for that type of colored glass are therefore less certain.”
“I particularly enjoy crochet tho i have never got on with knitting! and i also do some glass-painting and card-making.”
“It is sufficient to compare the present window with others in the Cathedral, not excluding the productions of Mr. Wailes himself, to shew the great advance which the art of glass-painting has recently made, both in the richness of the colours employed and their arrangement -- the improvement arising, doubtless, from a more accurate study of the great masters of the middle ages.”
“When the designs and specimens of glass-painting for the windows of the House of”
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
“We may be certain that the glass was the best that could be obtained, for the abbey was wealthy, and glass-painting was then a living art.”
“Although Le Mans was one of the first places where windows made by the new process were used, yet it did not become the centre of work; the city of Chartres took the lead, and became the greatest of the schools of medieval glass-painting, and from it the art slowly made its way to Germany and England, keeping always its essentially French character.”
“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
“Cousin began his long art-life in his native town with the study of glass-painting under Hympe and Grassot.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“Frank himself, he recognized at once that Frank's work was practically the same as the ancient glass-painting the secret of which had been lost.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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