Stained glass of the middle ages in England and France (1913) (14593102709)

Identifier: stainedglassofmi00arno (find matches)
Title: Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Arnold, Hugh Saint, Lawrence Bradford, 1885-
Subjects: Glass painting and staining -- England Glass painting and staining -- France Art, Medieval
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library



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XIX.represents the Merciful Man visiting the prisonersin the stocks. I wish Mr. Saint could have foundtime to have copied the whole of the scene, ofwhich the humour is, I feel sure, not unconscious.Plates XXXVII. and XXXVIII. are from thebottom of this window, and show the donor and hiswife with the priest saying mass for them. Another window illustrates in a number ofscenes the Last Fifteen Days of the World, asdescribed in Richard RoUes Pricke of Conscierice,and is well calculated to make the evil-doer takethought and mend his ways. Through the energy of the present rector, a fulland careful catalogue and description of all the old 240 STAINED GLASS glass in the church has been prepared and pubhshed.I only wish this were done for the Cathedral andother churches in York, which is richer, perhaps, inthe quantity of its old stained glass than any othercity in the world. PLATE XLVI HEAD OF ST. CATHERINE,FROM WINDOW ABOVE ALTAR IN NORTH-WEST CORNEROF ST. VINCENTS, ROUEN Fifteenth Century
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XV FIFTEENTH CENTURY GLASSIN FRANCE 31 XV FIFTEENTH CENTURY GLASSIN FRANCE The French school, when it revived in the second half of the fifteenth century, came, as I have said, almost at once, and far earlier than the English school, under the influence of the schools of Theinflueuce painting which had been developed in the Nether- ^^^P^t^^^ lands (where the Van Eycks were working as early as 1420), and also, to an extent which has only been realized comparatively recently, in France itself There was both advantage and disadvantage inthis. The drawing of the French is generally aHttle better than our o^vti, and there is morevariety and enterprise in their colour schemes thanin our later Perpendicular work. On the otherhand, it seems to me that almost from thebeginning they were hampered, if ever so little at 243 244 STAINED GLASS first, by the desire to apply to glasswork thestandards of a different medium. The difficulty had not arisen before. Theillumination or wall painting of the