Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-05-29
PAINTING on GLASS,



WORMS Of Art Prsaaesa ~ Artasts - -
F0urtesnth Csntury.
The early windows were marked b.
simplicity In design and briAliancy %
color. In the thirteenth century ~
Improvement in design took place; the
architcs apparently supplying the fgs
urrs. il we may judge from 'the work.
Of Wilals de Honecort. who has led
among his drawings scores Of studies
Of figures, draperies and proportio =
In those days there WAS less subdisi-
sion Of the arts than Is the case now.
and SO ''the glass-painter often enas
braced in his work the whole art Of
his profession. from the frst prepare
ton of the glass 10 the painting of The
finished window; ~ in the cas-, Of The
Alsatian glass paiatar. Jan d. Kirk
helm, who ex cut ID great
works in Ssrasburg C tho
dral. (about A. D. 1S40)
where he Is described as Vibrator
factor vitrorum. glass-ea err. PictoE"
| In England much destruction of works
of arts and Of records took place o.
casional!y. however. they were In
geniously. preserved. ~. for ins ancs.
the records Of N .wst al Abby,
(which lay for centuries unsuspectsl
in the brass ball of its lcc'ern, now
standing in the choir Of S,uthwsil
Minister" Most OF the glass WAS fnr.
eign, rs. g. e.. the windows for RI
vaulx Abbey. which were sent from
France in 114l In 1903 we come
upon the name OF an Esglish glass
painter. which IL preserved in the his.
tory Of Exeter Cathedral where for
14o feet of painted glass. and other
such work, Walter the Glazier" was
paid various sums Anew years after
..Walier- OF Exeter" the name Of
'!R,bert OF York Is preserved. - hav-
ing been paid in 1888 at the rate Of
twelve pcncs per foot fDr his
painted glass" He painted the
great west window OF York Ca
thedral. Another name occurs In
the records of Exeter Cathedral.
that of Robert Lyen. "a. D. 1891 }
: Men of his craft wero held In high
estimation in f,rmer times bsing re-
licved from imposts under tho Emps-
rors Constantine. Theodosius and
. Valentinian; and at Venice the mast
er GLACIERS of Murano were honored
: by high social privileges admitting
them to intermarriage with the Vsne-
tian nobility, and to the rank Of
= mobiles, with their titles inscribed in
their libro d. oro." The destruction d
painted glass was IN no country great
err than in Italy. where this b:anch OF
. art was little appreciated Indeed.
!. with walls adorned with mosaics and
frescoes. there is more need OF pure
!, sunlight than variously-colored lighl
shining through glass windowa There
was a school OF art in F,orencf. ut the
u convent outside the Porta q Pinti.
. whore monks established themselves
~ in 1888. and where. uatil the sisg,
:. in 1929, when it was entirely
=, ruined, they employed them
~ selves in the practice o
u various ar;s. and pre-sminently In
glass painting. 'sTheir prior pre-
pared with his own hands the ultra
y marine for Pietro Perugino for tn
- frescoes which he painted on the wal.
"a of the convent; and for Michel Angelo
" upon his undertaking the fresc res or
'' the vaul,ing of the Sistine Chapel i
70 the Vatican" Before the end Of tn
% fourteenth century this art had a
"o tanned to eminence in northern an
"a central Italy, but it rarely penetrate
the south. Instances are given {
80 glass painters OF S;ena and Piss
among whom Two. about the yet
Ut AGO. filled with their painted ga'
y. the arcade on the two sides OF tn
~ Campo Santo. for the preservation
"e the frescoes there from the action
q" sea brcezes-R da Scarpcria al
~ Leonardo, Fiorentine. Ed n6urg
u ReUieD.