Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass - Softcover

National Gallery Company Limited

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857093488 ISBN 13: 9781857093483

Publisher: National Gallery London, 2007

Synopsis

This book introduces a group of sixteenth-century stained glass panels from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London together with German paintings of the same period from the National Gallery.
By the first half of the sixteenth century in Germany, stained glass, whether maid for religious or secular purposes, had reached astonishing heights of sophistication, both in concept and in execution. Glass panels of this period display imagery and visual approaches similar to the painted panels with which they frequently formed ensemble pieces in churches - and increasingly, during the early part of the century, were made by the same designers. The comparison of works in paint and in glass illuminates the stylistic and compositional similarities between the two, and reminds us that at this time, the relationship between artist and craftsman, between 'fine' and decorative arts, was more intimate, and less clearly differentiated, than we may think.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Foister is Director of Collections and Curator of Early Netherlandish, German, and British Paintings at the National Gallery, London. She is author of Holbein and England and Durer and the Virgin in the Garden and co-author of Making and Meaning: Holbein's Ambassadors and Durer to Veronese, all distributed by Yale.

Review

"The Art of Light is a brief, but dazzling catalogue. . . . An amiable introduction to an especially creative period of stained-glass making in Renaissance Germany and poses relevant questions about art production and technology, aesthetics, and the transmission of ideas between artists, patrons and craftsmen."—Amy Prescher, The Sixteenth Century Journal (Amy Prescher The Sixteenth Century Journal)

Edition details

• Publisher: National Gallery London
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857093488
• ISBN 13: 9781857093483
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32