Windows; a book about stained & painted glass (1897)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 91
us ground he trodon. Lesser men must needs all stumble along in his footsteps,until they fell; and in their fall they dragged their art withthem. The fault inherent in such work as the Brussels windows isneither Van Orleys nor the glass painters ; it is in the mistakenaim of the designer striving… … thing. The figures in the window ilhistrated are so stronglypainted that even the white portions of their drapery stand outin dark rehef against the pale-grey sky. That is not done, youmay be sure, without considerable sacrifice of the light-givingquality of the glass. It is at a similar cost that…
Glass painting and staining
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