Stained glass; a handbook on the art of stained and painted glass, its origin and development from the time of Charlemagne to its decadence (850-1650 A. D.) (1922)
Werck, Alfred · New York : N. L. Brown · leaf 148
750-850) the use of foliage, the plant motifof the antique, was introduced into dec-orative art. Greater naturalism, how-ever, was developed in these plant formsby introducing motifs taken from na-ture and by giving life and variety tothe foliage. The new naturalistic formswere adopted with… … Representing Pierre Brun, donor of awindow (Museum Saverne) (Bas Rhin). 1499 Ornamentation borders of paintings. It is interestingto observe how the foliage is graduallycombined with the interlacing bands.Lead ornaments are placed at the endsof the bands during the earlier period,which, with the…
Glass painting and staining
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