Stained Glass

Stained Glass
Author: Virginia Chieffo Raguin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Raguin and Pongracz offer a detailed and lavish review of the styles, designs, practitioners, tools, and techniques of stained glass and give the complete history of this exquisite medium.

The Four Modes of Seeing

The Four Modes of Seeing
Author: ElizabethCarson Pastan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351544500

Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness's influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Saint Victor, this interdisciplinary collection brings together the work of thirty scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States. Each author has contributed an original article that engages with ideas formulated in Caviness's wide-ranging scholarship. The historiographic introduction discusses themes in Caviness's publications and their importance for art historical and medieval studies today. The book's thematic matrix groups together essays concerned with: The Material Object, Documentary Reconstruction, Post-Disciplinary Approaches, Multiple Readings, Gender and Reception, Performativity, Text and Image, Collecting and Consumption, and Politics and Ideology. The contributors include curators, art historians, historians, and literary scholars. Their subjects range from medieval stained glass to the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival, the Sachsenspiegel, and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Many foreground issues of gender, reception, and textuality, which have permeated Caviness's scholarship. Some also present approaches to sites that have been the subject of important studies by Caviness, including Canterbury, Chartres, Reims, Saint-Denis, Sens, and Troyes. The volume offers a broad range of methodological approaches to key topics in the study of medieval imagery and thus highlights the vitality of the field today.

Images in Light

Images in Light
Author: Michael Michael
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Stained glass was unknown in antiquity. Invented around AD 1000, it soon achieved a dominant position in the arts of the Middle Ages, not only in churches but also in secular contexts. Its innovation can be compared with that of television - and like television it involves passing light through a transparent layer, using the light of sun instead of light generated by electricity, so that in a real sense the stained glass image is in constant motion, as the light passing through it changes.

Catholic Collecting

Catholic Collecting
Author: Virginia Chieffo Raguin
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Presents a display of English art of the Middle Ages and Early Modern era preserved by recusant Catholics in England and the United States. This collection features stained glass, alabaster, carving, manuscripts, printed books, liturgical vessels, paintings, and vestments, including the prized chasuble given to Westminster Abbey by Henry VII.

Hoosiers and the American Story

Hoosiers and the American Story
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0871953633

A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.

The Illinois and Indiana Indians

The Illinois and Indiana Indians
Author: H W (Hiram Williams) 183 Beckwith
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014714725

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