Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-02-09
PAINTING ON GLASS.
Works of Art Produced by Artists of TIL
Fourteenth Century.


Works of Art Produced by Artists of the
Fourteenth Century.
The early windows were marked by
simplicity in design and brilliancy of
color. In the thirteenth century an
improvement in design took place; the
architect apparently supplying the fig
ures. if we may judge from 'the works
of Wilars de Honecort, who has left
among his drawings scores of studies
of figures, draperies and proper ton. -
In those days there was less subdivi-
sion of the arts than is the case now,
and SO 1.-THE ss-painter often EN-.
braced in his work the whole art of
his profession. from the first prepara-
ton of the glass to the painting of the
finished window; as in the case of the
Alsatian glass painter. Jean dc Kirk
helm, who ex .cuted great
works in Stras burg Crthe-
dral, (about A. D. 1910. }
where he Is described as Vibrator
factor vitrorum, glass-ea'cr. Pictor."
In England much destruction of works
of arts and of records took place. Oc-
casionally, however, they were in
eeniously preserved, as. for instance.
the records of Newstead Abbey,
(which lay for centuries unsus pected
in the brass ball of its lectern, now
standing in the choir of Southwell
Minister" Most of the glass was for
eign, as, e. G., the windows for Ri
vaulx Abbey, which were sent from
France in 1140. In 1903 we come
upon the name of an English glass
painter, which is 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. A few years after
walter of Exeter" the name of
Robert of York is preserved. as hay
ing been paid in 1888 at the rate of
twelve pence per foot for 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, ca. d. 1891. }
Men of his craft were held in high
estimation in former times. being re-
llCf GU IL Jill AhC
rOrs Constantine. Theodosius and
Valentinian; and at Venice the mast
err GLACIERS of Murano were honored
by high social privileges. admitting
them to intermarriage with the Vene-
tian nobility, and to the rank of
mobiles, with their titles inscribed in
their libro a. oro." The destruction of
to1 rr1o i,,y Mt y.r- Crrn n +
er than in Italy, where this branch of
art was little appreciated. Indeed,
with walls adorned with mosaics and
frescoes, there is more need OF pure
sunlight than yariously-colored light
shining through glass windows. There
was a school of art in Florence, ut the
convent outside the Porta Pint,
where monks established themselves
in 1888. and where. until the siege
in 1929, when it was entirely
ruined, they employed them-
selves in the practice OF
various arts. and prominently in
glass painting. Their prior pre-
pared with his own hands the ultra
marine for Pietro Perugino for the
frescoes which he painted on the walls
of the convent; and for Michel Angelo.
upon his undertaking the frescoeS on
the vaulting of the Sistine Chapel in
the Vatican" Before the end of the
fourteenth century this art had at
tanned to eminence in northern and
central Italy, but it rarely penetrated
the south. Instances are given of
glass painters of Siena and Pisa,
among whom two, "abOut the year
1860 filled with their painted glass
the arcade on the two sides of the
Campo Santo. for the preservation of
the frescoes there from the action OF
sea breezes-R da Scarperia and
Leonardo, Florentine. "-EdR6Hr gu
Re UietC.
"A solitary female vulture had
! dwelt for twenty-five years on the
Blotschorn, in the upper Valais, Swift
| zerland, and escaped countless at
tempts at capture. Recently. during
severe weather, poisoned fox left be-
low the cliff proved a successful bait
and the bird was found dead. The
body was stuffed and placed in the
| museum at Lausanne. 1t measured
across the wings SS4 inches. 1t Is
possible that one or two solitary
specimens still remain, but it is
quite certain there is no nest, and tho
snecies is believed to have disappeared
&,,o,, SuiSs territory.