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Windows; a book about stained & painted glass (1897)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 473

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. The mostbeautiful and sparkling of thirteenth century glass so framedwould be degraded. At Angers are some windows consisting ofa mosaic of scraps worked up into pattern (before the days otrestoration as we know it); and the mere introduction amidst itof a strapwork of thin white sheet (above) is… … 256. A Restoration at Angers. SCRAPS. 409 hands of a colourist it would be certain to do so. What if itbe confused ? Mystery is, at all events, one element of charm,and even of beauty. It is not beyond the bounds of possibility to marry old workwith new; but the union is rarely happy. It wants, in…

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