Stained Glass: Radiant Art

by Virginia Chieffo Raguin

Stained glass is a monumental art, a corporate enterprise dependent on a patron with whom artists blend their voices. Combining the fields now labeled decorative arts, architecture, and painting, the window transforms our experience of space. Windows of colored glass were essential features of medieval and Renaissance buildings. They provided not only light to illuminate the interior but also specific and permanent imagery that proclaimed the importance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606061534
• ISBN13: 9781606061534
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"