Medieval Stained Glass
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Si les lambris peints de la chapelle de Merléac (22) font depuis longtemps déjà parler d’eux, de même que les splendides vitraux qui ornent encore l’édifice, l’impressionnant décor héraldique des intrados des grandes arcades de la nef est... more
This chapter deals with the origins of stained glass: why, when, and what was used to screen the windows in buildings before c. year 1000. Archaeological finds made in the last few decades have confirmed what was hinted by textual sources... more
In due passi del De Administratione, Suger, abate di Saint-Denis, celebra le vetrate policrome del coro della sua abbaziale, menzionando la spesa profusa per la materia saphirorum fornita ai maestri vetrai, con riferimento al blu intenso... more
Een kuil vol vensterglas en glazeniersafval uit Oldenzaal geeft een schat aan informatie. Niet alleen over gebrandschilderd glas uit de vijftiende tot de zeventiende eeuw en over het wereldbeeld van de inwoners van Oldenzaal in die tijd,... more
Journal of Glass Studies 27 (1985), pp. 72-92. Stained glass, medieval, French and Breton. Medieval French History. Paris, medieval, occupations.
In Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth-Century Controversy over Art (Princeton University Press, 1990), I apply the conclusions of my earlier study of the social theory of medieval art as presented in... more
Article de la rubrique : "Les mammifères dans la littérature, l'histoire et les arts", de la revue de la SFEPM (Société Française pour l'Etude et la Protection des Mammifères).
The chapter house and vestibule of York Minster contains one of the best preserved ensembles of medieval stained glass of its period in England. The imagery of the vestibule glazing has often been overlooked by scholars; perhaps due to... more
A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Blackwell Companions in Art History, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2019) (a collection of thirty-nine original essays from leading and upcoming scholars in the... more
Most of the medieval window glass in England remains unpublished. This thesis contributes to the eventual realisation of a comprehensive history of this fragile medium, through a study of window glass in the two Midland’s counties of... more
Die Westrose der Pariser Sainte-Chapelle, gestaltet um 1490 im Auftrag von König Charles VIII., ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine rätselhafte Schöpfung. Sie repräsentiert ein Werk der Glaskunst des ausgehenden 15. Jahrhundert, in einem... more
The vast examination and analysis of Abbot Suger and the choir of Saint-Denis have mainly focused on the role and importance of the light coming through the stained-glass windows, neglecting the role of color in defining the cathedral's... more
Normandy is today one of the areas of France that retains the largest group of ancient stained glass. At the beginning of the XIXth century, an important number of windows moved to the art market and Rouen was particularly affected by... more
31. 3. 2022 StředověC JinaX Lecture - Hans Belting Library, Deaprtment of Art History, MUNI Brno Abstract: Color appears to us as something whose most intimate nature definitely eludes us. In the society of images, color informs, as in... more
The art program of Abbot Suger at the monastery of Saint-Denis in the mid-twelfth century has long been credited with the reintroduction of “allegory” into Western European visual art after centuries of disuse. While such sweeping claims... more
Metropolitan Museum Journal, 19/20 (1984-1985), pp. 17-24.
L'Art et les revolutions, XXVIIe Congress international d'histoire de l'art, Strasbourg 1989, Actes (Strasbourg: 1992), pp. 71-102.
My Ph.D dissertation, that I reworked to publish my first monograph, Illuminando colorat”. La vetrata tra la tarda Antichità e l’alto Medioevo attraverso le fonti e l’archeologia. (2003), was praised as one of the most meaningful and... more
The aim of present paper is to demonstrate the iconographical interpretations of the north rose window of the cathedral of Chartres. In the centre of the upper section Virgin Mary is enthroned, with prophets and kings from the Old... more
Gesta 30 (1991), pp. 41-47. Heraldry, medieval. Chartres, stained glass, heraldry.
Journal of Glass Studies 25 (1983), pp. 121-28.
Medieval stained glass. Stained glass, collections USA.
Medieval stained glass. Stained glass, collections USA.
Art Bulletin 65,1 (March 1983), pp. 23-33.
Stained glass, medieval. Heraldry, medieval, French. Medieval board-games, tric-trac.
Stained glass, medieval. Heraldry, medieval, French. Medieval board-games, tric-trac.
The origin of Cistercian stained glass – can theology serve as aesthetic inspiration? The statutes of the general chapter of the Cistercian Order, which define principal rules governing the lives of Cistercian monks, also provide... more
Traditio 38 (1982), pp. 344-52.
Stained Glass, medieval. Heraldry, French, medieval. Le Mans cathedral.
Stained Glass, medieval. Heraldry, French, medieval. Le Mans cathedral.