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How to Look at Stained Glass: A Guide to the Church Windows of England
How to Look at Stained Glass: A Guide to the Church Windows of England
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The companion guide to the stained-glass windows of England's churches, "How to Look at Stained Glass" offers an A-Z format to reveal fascinating details, explore themes, patterns, designs, and effects, and requires no previous historical, artistic, or religious knowledge. It covers all major periods and styles, examines the iconography of stained glass, and features a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A fresh, unstuffy guide to the stained-glass windows of England's churches, including a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples. The magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. Yet churches are accessible treasure troves of history, art, and craftsmanship. How to Look at Stained Glass is the companion guide that's needed to make sense of and enjoy the vast array of stained-glass windows in the churches of England. This fresh, unstuffy guide: - Uses an A-Z format to reveal a multitude of fascinating details - all the way from apples to zig-zags - Explores stained glass by themes, patterns, designs, and effects - Requires no previous historical, artistic, or religious knowledge - Covers all the major periods and styles, from medieval to modern, Victorian to postwar, eighteenth century to Arts and Crafts, figurative to abstract - Examines the fascinating and evolving iconography of stained glass - Makes looking at gloriously colourful, artistically important windows both entertaining and rewarding - Features a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples - Offers a useful index of churches by county.
Weight: 460g
Dimension: 154 x 233 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838602185
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