Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or practice of producing designs in color on or in glass.
- noun A painting upon glass; a surface of glass decorated in color by the use of stained glass or painting, or both.
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Examples
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I particularly enjoy crochet tho i have never got on with knitting! and i also do some glass-painting and card-making.
Archive 2008-12-01 Double Dipped Sweets 2008
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While Peckitt's manuscript includes several recipes for stains or glass-painting colors, there are no instructions for making pot colors. 5 Details of Peckitt's processes for that type of colored glass are therefore less certain.
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I particularly enjoy crochet tho i have never got on with knitting! and i also do some glass-painting and card-making.
Bare it all Wednesday Featuring Marmalady! Double Dipped Sweets 2008
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Glass painting held a peculiar position among artists and artisan techniques: Independent of the reputation of encaustic painting, it was frequently described as a lost art rediscovered in the eighteenth century. 47 Both the French Council of Commerce and the Society of Arts in London regularly received letters about recovered glass-painting techniques, and both were diligent about investigating presentations.
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It is sufficient to compare the present window with others in the Cathedral, not excluding the productions of Mr. Wailes himself, to shew the great advance which the art of glass-painting has recently made, both in the richness of the colours employed and their arrangement -- the improvement arising, doubtless, from a more accurate study of the great masters of the middle ages.
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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When the designs and specimens of glass-painting for the windows of the House of
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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We may be certain that the glass was the best that could be obtained, for the abbey was wealthy, and glass-painting was then a living art.
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Although Le Mans was one of the first places where windows made by the new process were used, yet it did not become the centre of work; the city of Chartres took the lead, and became the greatest of the schools of medieval glass-painting, and from it the art slowly made its way to Germany and England, keeping always its essentially French character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In Paris Cousin continued his eminent career as a glass-painter, and his masterpiece, the windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Vincennes, are considered the finest examples of glass-painting in all France.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Cousin began his long art-life in his native town with the study of glass-painting under Hympe and Grassot.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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