Stained glass in Catholic Philadelphia
By: edited by Jean M. Farnsworth, Carmen R. Croce, Joseph F. Chorpenning ; foreword by Anne D'Harnoncourt ; photography by Laird Bindrim
Contributors: Farnsworth, Jean M; Croce, Carmen R; Chorpenning, Joseph F
Publisher: Saint Joseph's University Press; Brand: Saint Joseph's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Subjects: Catholic Church -- In art; Glass painting and staining -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia; Church decoration and ornament -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Description: "Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia tells the remarkable story of the thousands of stained-glass windows - made in America, England, France, and Germany - in the more than 400 churches, chapels, and institutions of the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Since 1997 more than 450 sites have been visited to document the archdiocese's windows by photographing them. This process resulted in the creation of a photo archive of over 50,000 images. Using this archive as a foundation, a team of scholars - from a variety of institutions and with specialties in medieval studies, architectural and social history, Christian iconography, decorative and liturgical arts, the craft, creative reuse, and historic preservation of stained glass - was assembled to study these windows. The result is this profusely illustrated book of original research that makes accessible a significant and highly visible, but neglected, aspect of our ecclesial, national, and regional cultural heritage."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-483) and index