Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, 1941-

The history of stained glass : the art of light, medieval to contemporary / Stained glass Virginia Chieffo Raguin with a contribution from Mary Clerkin Higgins. - London : Thames & Hudson, 2003. - 288 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286) and index.

1. Symbol and story: The art of stained glass - 2. Origins, materials and the Glazier's Art Mary Clerkin Higgins - 3. The revival of monumental architecture and the place of glass - 4. The age of great Cathedrals: The thirteenth to fifteenth cneturies - 5. Fifteenth- and sixteenth-centry transformation of the narrative 6. Large-scale renaissance stained glass - 7. The revivial of stained glass in the United Kingfom and the United States - 8. Historic revivals in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain - 9. The Opalescent, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts Movements - 10. The glass of the twentieth century.

0500511241 (hbk.) 9780500511244 (hbk.)


Glass painting and staining--History.

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