Academic literature on the topic 'Glass-painter'

This paper examines the history of one of the most important schemes of eighteenth-century painted glass in England: the east window of Ely Cathedral by the Dublin-born James Pearson. Although it was never completed, remains of this window have been preserved in the cathedral and in the bishop's palace. The Ely work remains Pearson's earliest recorded and most substantial commission, and a reassessment is made of its significance in his long career as a glass-painter. Changes in the proposed iconography are studied in the light of contemporary attitudes to imagery and the place of the painted glass scheme is analysed in the complex and controversial restoration history of Ely Cathedral. The paper demonstrates that eighteenth-century painted glass played an important role in the adaptation of cathedrals to contemporary liturgical requirements: at Ely, it largely determined the placing and layout of the new choir.

The number of interpretations of the scenes (or scene, if it is regarded as one continuous one) on the two sides of the Portland Vase had by the end of 1992 reached the impressive total of forty-six. All of these, while involving valuable observations about the figures, their poses and setting, fall a long way short of proof. Most are over-complicated, introducing implausible identifications of figures and scenes. This is true of the most recent attempts by Painter and Whitehouse in the Journal of Glass Studies, repeated in the volume on Roman glass jointly edited by one of the same writers, and of a note in JHS cxii (1992) by Harrison.

ABSTRACTThis paper discuss the presence of powdered glass and quartz integrated in the red lake layers of two paintings attributed to the Sevillian painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo that belongs to the Guadalajara’s Regional Museum’s art collection. A laboratory experimental reproduction of the Sevillian painting technique was made using three different lakes (cochineal, madder lake and brazilwood) mixed with four varieties of glass to explore the optical properties and the influence of the transparent and translucent aggregates into the oil paint layers. The experimental reproductions were analyzed using ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, optical and fluorescence microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDX). A comparison between the originals and the reproduced red lakes layers was carried out to understand the artistic process of Murillo’s color application. Preliminary results suggest that glass was not used as a siccative agent as the historical treatises mentioned but mainly as an additive to increase brightness, thickness and color saturation of the red lake layers related to the artist’s intention.

The paper presents the elements that underpin the consideration of the painter Pavel Zamfir, author of the glass icon with the theme Archangels Michael and Gabriel, and the restoration work that we put in this case, presented in natural succession. It also presents how the dating of the icon was discovered, by the digital shooting against backlight. The following operations are presented in our paper: fragments gluing operations, consolidation of the paint layer, colour integration, consolidation and completion of the wooden cover. Finally, we expressed some recommendations regarding storage conditions and exposure.

Modification of biobased PLLA properties by mixing with conventional PMMA via melt mixing in Brabender mixer was performed. Despite negative results of theoretical miscibility calculations by the group contribution approach of Coleman, Graf and Painter,<br /> homogeneous blend morphologies were prepared as recorded with scanning electron<br /> microscopy (SEM). All PLLA/PMMA blends displayed a single glass transition temperature. With increasing fraction of PMMA in blends, the increase in Tg from 58 °C to 93 °C was recorded by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Added PMMA improved<br /> mechanical properties, while the flexibility of PLLA/PMMA blends gradually decreased as revealed by DMA measurements.

The two newly-discovered drawings by the glass painter Dirck Crabeth presented here fit seamlessly into his series The Road to the Salvation of Man, which has long been known. The drawings are the design for the first episode, until recently known only as a glass panel, and the original of the second episode, the copy of which, along with two copies of other episodes are in Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. Stylistic clues have made it possible to date Dirck Crabeth’s drawings and the corresponding surviving glass panels earlier, to around 1545-50. They share the thinking represented in a Lutheran series of prints by Frans Huys dating from around 1560 to a design by Gerard van Groeningen, which was discussed by Daniel Horst. An analysis of the career of the young Wouter Crabeth, his collaboration with Dirck and characteristics of their different styles demonstrates that the three copies in Utrecht could be by Wouter Crabeth, contrary to the recent attribution by Ilja Veldman to the Antwerp artist Pieter Huys, Frans’s brother, and in line with the previously held attribution to one of Dirck’s assistants.

Irkutsk Regional Art Museum exhibition opened in September 2018 commemorated the 90th anniversary of the birth of Boris Timofe­evich Bychkov, Russian folk artist, corresponding member of Russian Art Academy, member of Irkutsk Regional Union of Artists and master of decorative glass. He had lived and worked in Irkutsk since 1962. A native of Moscow he graduated from Mukhina Leningard Higher Arts and Crafts College. For many years, he was an art director of Gusev glass manufacturing plant in Gus-Khrustalny. In 1962, he moved to Irkutsk and dedicated his whole life to Siberia. These are some of his art works known to natives of Irkutsk: stained glass windows «Irkutsk» in the hotel «Inturist», «The Blue Bird» in Bratsk community center, chandeliers in Irkutsk Music Theater, «Vostoksibsantechmontazh» and «Agrodorspecstroy» companies, and ornamental designs «Frozen sounds» and «Victory» in Irkutsk Art Museum Collection. Most of his designs and artifacts are stored in warehouses and are on exhibit in Irkutsk Art Museum, and all of them were featured in an exhibition. Besides the artist’s works, there were two other art works on display — «Portrait of B.T. Bychkov. Mural» and «Portrait of B.T. Bychkov on the optical glass» by painter-jewelers Natali and Arkadyi Lodyanovyh. This article is about the creative works of the glassware art artist himself and the story behind his portrait.

AbstractThe little known window design and corresponding glass cartoon kept in the Municipal Archives of Leiden are the remains of a now lost window with the representation of Pallas Athena and her owl, given by the Board of Governors of Leiden University to the Pieterskerk. They have been first published by Pelinck in I943 with the correct destination, donor's name and even the date, I629 (note 2). He was able to do so by linking the drawings with a description from c. I630 by the Utrecht antiquarian Arnoldus Buchelius and the published resolution of the Cu-rators taken on I4 May I629 (notes 6, 9). The Curators offered a gift of glass to the former churchmaster Heinrick Egbertsz. van der Hal, whereby no artist's name or subject matter are mentioned, only the obligatory inclusion of the city arms. The practical arrangement for the commission was left to the Burgomasters of Leyden, who were all members of the Board of Governors. The small-scale drawing, severely damaged, concentrates on the architectural and heraldic design (fig. i). An aedicule supported by Corinthian columns and crowned by a pediment offers room below to the city arms of Leiden and the university flag, with a still life of books and globes in front, covering the floor. Two more coats of arms are depicted on either side of the pediment: on the left the arms of Holland held by the Dutch lion, and on the right those of Prince William of Orange, founding father of the university, held by Fame. The drawing provided with scale indications and an unfinished, alternative design on the reverse is apparantly not a vidimus, but a working document to facilitate the elaboration of the cartoon. The latter consists of two long segments for the first two lights and two shorter ones, with the missing information added either on the reverse of the same strip or of the corresponding second (for the third) and first (for the fourth) lights (figs. 2-9). The working method is so far similar to that of the Gouda cartoons, of which the latest pieces date from the early I7th century. With the repetition of parts of the architecture in mirror image the Leiden cartoon is now considered, contrary to Pelinck, complete. It represents minor improvements in composition and ornament with respect to the small drawing, but most important, it depicts the figures in the second and third lights, still missing in the small design. Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom and protector of science and the arts is standing on a pedestal in the aedicule, paging in a book placed on the cathedra on her leftside. Her attributes, the owl and the shield with Medusa head, are nearby. Below her feet four children are engaged in writing and reading. They are identified now as personifications of the four then faculties of the young university: on the left theology, distinguished by a piece of paper inscribed with Hebrew-like characters bound to the figure's head, and medicine, depicted as a naked child, only the head covered by a drapery. The two helmeted boys on the right represent law and philosophy. The donation can not be linked to any special occasion, in I629 the university existed just 54 years. The old attribution by Pelinck on presumed stylistic ground of design and cartoon to the Utrecht painter and glass-painter Jan Gerritsz. van Bronchorst (c. I603-I66I) was already rejected in the past in the artist's biography on the same ground (note 25). A new candidate is proposed now in the person of the Leiden artist Pieter Kouwenhorn (I599/I600-I654), who originated from Haarlem and was inscribed in I6I9 as master glass-painter in the rolls of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke. Although he has already been studied in the past in some detail, more information is given now on his life and the small œuvre of his drawings (notes 29-30, 56). The Burgomasters of Leiden, responsible for commissioning the artist, were familiar with him, as Kouwenhorn has just finished in I628 a documented window in the Aldermen's Chamber of the City Hall (fig. II). Although the figural scenes of this cartoon are smaller and they are therefore executed in the favourite technique of the artist in pen, grey and brown ink and wash instead of black and white chalk, they also present certain parallels in support of the attribution. More stylistic arguments are provided by Kouwenhorn's signed drawing with a related subject matter, Minerva and Mercury from I635 in the Album Amicorum of the Leiden scholar Petrus Scriverius (fig. I5). The new attribution is finally substantiated by documents. The artist's correct Christian name, mis-spelled surname and his qualification as a glass-painter occur in the church administration, when he was paid on 25th of March I630 the sum of f 6 s I4, without precising his services; on 30th December of the same year payment of f I0 s I6 is recorded again to him as Pieter Pieters. (notes 5I, 52). The first item most probably concerns the customary gratuity given by the churchwardens after installment of the window in the Pieterskerk, with payment perhaps for additional work in December. Completion of the glass within a year, announced by the Curators of the university on I4th May I629 is reasonable, and full payment was due from the latter. The question remains, if Kouwenhorn was only the glass-painter or also the author of the window's design and the draftsman of the cartoon with figures of exceptional quality, which are executed more carefully than the protagonists of the smaller cartoon for the Aldermen's Chamber. His oeuvre of independent drawings made in a variety of techniques (figs. I0, I2, I4, I6, I7), the reference made to him shortly after his death as an excellent draftsman, and his involvement in giving drawing lessons leave no doubt as to his capacities in this field (notes 36-38). Together with Bronchorst, Kouwenhorn follows in the footsteps of such famous I6th-century glass-painters as the Crabeths from Gouda and Willem Tybout from Haarlem, who all worked from own design. As to Kouwenhorn, unfortunately none of his windows is preserved. The exact location of the university glass in the Pieterskerk is unknown, just like the date when it fell into decay and was removed.

For the study of early modern society, Renaissance art often provides an extraordinary means of exploring visually the values and assumptions, attitudes, and modes of perception of those who inhabited, mentally and materially, the world of traditional, preindustrial Europe. The work of Hans Baldung dit Grien (1484/85-1545), a Swabian painter, illustrator, and designer of stained glass, illuminates one of the most familiar and yet least understood aspects of this world, the mentality of those who believed that some women were capable of influencing a man's sexual nature by means of witchcraft.In a series of prints and drawings executed between 1510 and 1544, Baldung portrayed various aspects of the alleged activities of witches. As contributions to the iconography of witchcraft, these Hexenbilder were without artistic precedent.

Abstract The forthcoming restoration campaign of the former house of the Flemish Baroque painter Pieter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) in Antwerp includes the design and construction of a new glass canopy. It is to replace the actual non-transparent roof structure, which was erected in the 1990s to protect the portico, separating the inner court yard of the house from the gardens, and especially its sculptural artworks from further material loss. The design parameters of the new glass canopy were evaluated based on the distribution probability of the rain on the portico as a function of rain intensity and wind velocity, while the rain distribution was determined based on the raindrop trajectories combining the vertical raindrop velocity and the horizontal drag from the wind. A minimum wind velocity of 40 km/h is required before rain can reach the feet of the sculptured artworks during intense rain showers. Statistical analysis of the hourly wind velocity and rain shower duration and intensity reveals a return period of approximately 4.2 years when the portico is protected by a glass canopy with identical dimensions of the actual provisory roof structure. Although the influence of intermittent wind gusts and squalls, which will more frequently drag along rainwater to the critical areas, and increase the amount of rainwater attaining the artworks during storms, could so far not be studied more in detail. The above risks are however considered acceptable to prevent future damage accumulation.

Cette recherche a pour ambition d'étudier les vitraux, les commanditaires et les peintres-verriers de la fin du Moyen Age au début du XVIIe siècle dans l'Est du Bassin parisien, c'est-à-dire dans un secteur géographique couvrant des territoires où il reste parfois beaucoup de vitraux en place (pays troyen, par exemple) et d'autres où il ne subsiste presque rien, comme dans les Ardennes ou l'Aisne. Cependant, il est possible, grâce aux sources d'archives, de fournir un tableau des foyers de peinture sur verre dans des villes où l'absence de vestiges ne laisse pas supposer qu'on y ait produit du vitrail (Mézières, Laon). Ces sources, comptables, judiciaires, notariales, réglementaires ou techniques, permettent, d'une part, de suivre sur le long terme les mécanismes de commande, de pose et d'entretien des verrières et, d'autre part, d'étudier les familles de peintres-verriers qui ont été actives dans la plupart des cités du territoire couvert par notre étude. Nous avons donc tenté d'élaborer une définition du métier de peintre-verrier tenant compte des circonstances (métier réglementé ou non) ainsi que de la teneur exacte des activités des peintres-verriers qui sont, comme dans de nombreux autres pays, souvent polyvalents, les spécialisations dépendant du contexte artistique, économique et familial. Les source anciennes enrichissent aussi l'approche iconographique en contribuant à affiner notre connaissance des corpus de vitraux posés dans un espace géographique et pour une période donnés : si l'iconographie dépend pour une bonne part du statut du commanditaire et de sa culture, les dévotions locales, la nature de l'édifice et les modes ont aussi joué un rôle
This project is a study of the stained-glass windows, patrons and painter-glassworkers of the end of the Middle Ages. It focuses on the east Parisian Basin at the 16th and 17th centuries, an area which encompasses regions (such as that around Troyes) where there are many extant windows, and others (such as the Ardennes and Aisne) where almost nothing survives. Using archival sources, however, it is possible to supply a picture of glassmaking centre where no material evidence suggests that glass was manufactured (for example in Mézières and Laon). On the one hand, these sources allow us to trace the processes of patronage, production, installation and maintenance of windows over a period of time. On the other, they provide an insight into the families of glassworkers which were active in most of the cities covered by this study. Drawing on this evidence, this thesis presents an account of the painter-glassworker's craft, taking into account socio-historical circumstances (including guilds), as well as the details of their activities given in the records, which are often, as in other countries, rather vague and general, depending on artistic, economic and familial context for clarification. The historical sources can also enrich an iconographic understanding of the glass by helping to refine our knowledge of the windows within their geographical and temporal contexts : if their subject-matter depends on the status and culture of patrons, the nature of local devotion, the nature of the edifice and fashion must all be taken into account

Chapter 10 compares the work of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emmanuel Swedenborg. Le Fanu is closely connected to Maturin and copies a number of his tropes in ‘Spalatro’: mimetic contagion, blood for money, the demonic tempter, and suicide. Le Fanu, aware of the deathliness of his Anglo-Irish culture, seeks ways to engender life and movement through narrating and revealing death so that a transcendence beyond can be imagined. He is compared to Poe, whose female protagonists remain entrapped by materiality even as they seek to escape it, and shown to be more grotesque. He uses Swedenborg to render the afterlife itself material and real, especially through his spiritual creatures, and to make the transcendent the cause of the natural. A proto-feminist theology yokes female Gothic entrapment to the power of death, and the heroines of ‘Schalken the Painter’ and ‘Carmilla’ apocalyptically reveal the presence of death in its grotesque materiality, while the women of Uncle Silas act as agents of heavenly charity.

This chapter centers on the relationships between acoustic projection and cinematic space. I start with Cage’s rhetoric on the medium of magnetic tape as the second transformation of sound materiality. Building on Julia Robinson’s notion of “symbolic investiture,” I survey the divided interpretations of Cage’s platform between musicologists that decode his music according to style analysis that established a compositional logic for his move to indeterminacy and the larger debate among art historians on the split between Neo-Avant-Garde and Abstract Expressionist aesthetics. I argue that Cage’s interaction with film and filmmakers provides a meeting ground for these debates within cinematic space in two films: Cage’s score for the Herbert Matter documentary on sculptor Alexander Calder and colleague Morton Feldman’s score for the Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg documentary on Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Both artists saw these commissions as opportunities to formalize connections between their compositional approaches to sound and the visual approach to space, kinetic movement, and ground revealed in the time-based poetics of the moving image. Last, I examine a film collaboration I discovered with the sculptor Richard Lippold that documented his monumental wire sculpture, “The Sun,” in which Cage and Lippold applied chance procedures to the editing process. Lippold’s commission came about as a result of his split with the so-called Irascible 18 collective of New York artists, and the history of its commission and reception reflects both an ideological divide on the materiality of sculpture and larger postwar McCarthy-era politics of passivity and resistance.