Storied Windows: A Traveller's Introduction to the Study of Old Church Glass, From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance, Especially in Frace (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

A. J. De Havilland Bushnell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133220080X ISBN 13: 9781332200801

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Storied Windows: A Traveller's Introduction to the Study of Old Church Glass, From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance, Especially in Frace

One caution, however, is needful at the outset. TO examine church windows with any satisfaction it is absolutely necessary to be provided with a good field-glass. For there are comparatively few Old windows so placed that they can be thoroughly well seen with the naked eye. When the field glass is directed towards clerestory windows it is realised at once how indispensable an adjunct it is to the enjoyment Of fine Old glass. Another very useful recommendation is to examine the glass from the outside, for this will Often determine the question whether the glass is Old or new, because the outside of Old glass is generally covered with a whitish patina like a thin coat of dirty white wash, and it Often has a number of little hemi spherical pits CD the surface as if it had suffered from smallpox. Moreover, it is wise, if possible, to visit the same window in the forenocn, the afternoon and the evening, because they look very different according as the sun is or is not shining through them.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 133220080X
• ISBN 13: 9781332200801
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 424