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Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, 1941-

Stained glass : from its origins to the present / Virginia Chieffo Raguin ; with a contribution from Mary Clerkin Higgins.

New York : H.N. Abrams, 2003.

288 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Surveys the history, styles, artists, designs, techniques, and tools of stained glass art, tracing its progress from the ancient Egyptians and Romans, through the Byzantine and Gothic eras, to the present.

Glass painting and staining -- History.

Higgins, Mary Clerkin.

"A Quintet book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-286) and index.

Symbol and story: the art of stained glass -- Origins, materials, and the Glazier's art (by Mary Clerkin Higgins) -- The revival of monumental architecture and the place of glass -- The age of great cathedrals; The thirteenth to fifteenth centuries -- Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century transformation of the narrative -- Large=scale renaissance stained glass -- The revival of stained glass in the United Kingdom and the United States -- Historic revivals in Germany, France, Belgium, and Italy -- The opalescent, art nouveau, and arts and crafts movements -- The glass of the twentieth century.

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