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Stained glass as an art (1896)

Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927 · London, New York, Macmillan · leaf 143

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seeking fora broad system of light and shade. The artistwas aiming at genuine decorative beauty, and ifthe means he adopted were not the best, he never-theless made them serve his end. The work possesses a distinct beauty of its own,a beauty which the artist felt the material wascapable of… … Fig. 3f. In American Churchy Geneva.From coloured cartoon.{Height of figure ^fl.) rapid in that century, fromthe introduction of a cer-tain pictorial quality intothe glass, by which it ac-quired a beauty of a new-kind, to the imitation ofpictures pure and simple.A few years sufficed forthis, and by…

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