( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭuring the late medieval period, glass factories were set up where there was a ready supply of silica, the essential material for glass manufacture. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
#PAINT STAINED GLASS DESIGN ON WOOD WINDOWS#
6 Buildings incorporating stained glass windows.5.11 Combining ancient and modern traditions.5.4 Renaissance, Reformation and Classical windows.1.5 Modern production of traditional glass.Windows within a building may be thematic, for example: within a church – episodes from the life of Christ within a parliament building – shields of the constituencies within a college hall – figures representing the arts and sciences or within a home – flora, fauna, or landscape. The design of a window may be abstract or figurative may incorporate narratives drawn from the Bible, history, or literature may represent saints or patrons, or use symbolic motifs, in particular armorial.
For this reason stained glass windows have been described as "illuminated wall decorations". In this context, the purpose of a stained glass window is not to allow those within a building to see the world outside or even primarily to admit light but rather to control it. In Western Europe, together with illuminated manuscripts, they constitute the major form of medieval pictorial art to have survived. Many large windows have withstood the test of time and remained substantially intact since the Late Middle Ages.
A window must fit snugly into the space for which it is made, must resist wind and rain, and also, especially in the larger windows, must support its own weight.
Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the engineering skills to assemble the piece. The diameter is 8 + 3⁄ 4 in (22 cm), and the piece was designed to be placed low, close to the viewer, very possibly not in a church. The local bishop-saint Lambrecht of Maastricht stands in an extensive landscape, 1510–20. Renaissance roundel, inserted into a plain glass window, using only black or brown glass paint, and silver stain in a range of yellows and gold. The term stained glass is also applied to windows in enamelled glass in which the colours have been painted onto the glass and then fused to the glass in a kiln very often this technique is only applied to parts of a window. Painted details and yellow stain are often used to enhance the design. The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead and supported by a rigid frame. Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass" to include domestic lead light and objets d'art created from foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.Īs a material stained glass is glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture, and usually then further decorating it in various ways. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. The term stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material and to works created from it. Outside-view of a stained glass of the Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk from Ostend (Belgium), built between 18