Windows; a book about stained & painted glass (1897)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 312
m are given overto subject. There green trees and pale blue water againsta deep blue sky and deeper blue hills, anticipate a favouritesixteenth century colour scheme; but the glass is a mere wreckof what was once probably a fine window. Figure groups on a considerable scale are chiefly to be… … These great circular windows, which occur at Arezzo, atBologna, at Siena, and especially at Florence, are usuallysurrounded by an arabesque border. Occasionally the borderconsists of a medley of cherubic wings and faces ; occasionally,as at Siena, it is in white, more in the form of mouldings ;…
Glass painting and staining
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