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Exhibition Review
In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1084-1087
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Reviewer:
Cooke, Edward S. (Cooke, Edward S.)
Subjects
subjects:
Glassmakers / Glassmakers / Glassware / Mirrors / Drinking glasses / Jewellery / Windows / Science / British art / British architecture / Decorative arts / Interiors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-Century British World Edited by Christopher L. Maxwell. 304 pp. incl. 227 col. + b. & w. ills. (Corning Museum of Glass, 2020), £50. ISBN 978–0–87290–223–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Designs for the walls of the drawing room at Northumberland House, London, by Robert Adam. 1770–73. Pen, pencil and coloured washes on laid paper, 52 by 101.6 cm. and 51.5 by 65.2 cm. (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, SM Adam volume 39/5; exh. Corning Museum of Glass).
Attributed works:
2. Mirror in gilded wood frame, by William Mathie (carver), based on a design by Thomas Chippendale. c.1760, probably London (glass), and Scotland (frame). Mercury-tin amalgam mirror; carved, assembled and gilded wood. 174 by 105.5 by 12.5 cm. (Corning Museum of Glass).
Attributed works:
3. Group portrait, probably the Raikes family, by Gawen Hamilton. 1730–32. Oil on canvas, 66 by 91.8 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Centre; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Windows for the World: Nineteenth-Century Stained Glass and the International Exhibitions, 1851–1900. By Jasmine Allen
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1073-1074
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Reviewer:
Harrison, Martin (Harrison, Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Winston, Charles
artists:
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore / Parry, Thomas Gambier / Day, Lewis F. / Suffling, Ernest R. / Wiley, Kehinde / Millais, John Everett / Heaton, Butler and Bayne / Gibbs, Alexander
dates:
1850-1899
media:
Stained glass
places:
Great Britain / France / United States
subjects:
Glassmakers / Exhibitions / Cultural history / Politics / Nationalism / Race / Slavery / Style / Iconography / Historiography / Pre-Raphaelite
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Madonna and Child, by Kehinde Wiley. 2016. Stained glass in an aluminium frame, 249 by 117 cm. (© Kehinde Wiley Studio; courtesy the artist and Galerie Templon, Paris and Brussels).
Book Review
Die Mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien in Freiburg im Breisgau
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 416-418
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Reviewer:
Crossley, Paul (Crossley, Paul)
Subjects
places:
Freiburg im Breisgau
subjects:
Stained glass / Corpora (catalogues) / Glassmakers / German
subjects:
Churches / Cathedrals
Publication Received
Il Vetro in Europa, Oggetti, Artisti e Manufatture dal 1400 al 1930
06/2007 | 1251 | 149
Pages: 423-424
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Reviewer:
Dawson, Aileen (Dawson, Aileen; D., A.)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1899 / 1900-1929
print:
Glass
subjects:
Surveys / Glass / Glassware / European / Techniques / Glassmakers
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Il Vetro in Europa, Oggetti, Artisti e Manufatture dal 1400 al 1930 | author: Ciappi, Silvia
Book Review
Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: The Fragile Craft
06/2001 | 1179 | 143
Pages: 376
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Reviewer:
Thornton, Dora (Thornton, Dora)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
places:
Italy / Venice
subjects:
Glassmakers / Venetian glass
subjects:
Glassware
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice: The Fragile Craft | author: McCray, W. Patrick
Book Review
Les vitraux de Paris, de la region parisienne, de la Picardie et du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Rencensement des vitraux anciens de la France. Volume I
11/1980 | 932 | 122
Pages: 775
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Reviewer:
Archer, Michael (Archer, Michael)
Subjects
places:
France / Paris / Nord Pas-de-Calais
subjects:
Glassmakers / French
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Les vitraux de Paris, de la region parisienne, de la Picardie et du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Rencensement des vitraux anciens de la France. Volume I | author: Grodecki, Louis , author: Perrot, Françoise , author: Taralon, Jean
Book Review
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. Die Glasmalereien in Schwaben von 1200-1350
10/1959 | 678/679 | 101
Pages: 360
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Reviewer:
Rackham, Bernard (Rackham, Bernard; R., B.; Rackham, B.; R.)
Subjects
dates:
1200-1299
places:
Germany
places:
Swabia
subjects:
Corpora (catalogues) / Glassware / Medieval / German
subjects:
Glassmakers / Swabian
subjects:
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi. Die Glasmalereien in Schwaben von 1200-1350 | author: Wentzel, Hans
Article
Florentine Painted Glass and the Practice of Design
02/1949 | 551 | 91
Pages: 42-48
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Author:
Lane, Arthur (Lane, Arthur; L., A.)
Subjects
artists:
Ghiberti, Lorenzo
buildings:
Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
buildings:
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1399
places:
Italy / Florence
places:
Siena / Assisi
sources:
Cennini, Cennino di Drea
subjects:
Italian painting / Glass paintings / Stained glass
subjects:
Windows / Techniques / Design
subjects:
German painting / Influence / Glassmakers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. Solomon and Nathan. Windows in East Wall, Santa Croce, Florence. Perhaps Designed by Agnolo Gaddi.
Attributed works:
25. Detail from the Ascension of Christ in One of the occhi in the Dome. Duomo, Florence. Designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1443.
Western art unattributed:
17. The Crucifixion. Occhio at Apex of East Window in Santa Croce, Florence. Diameter, 120 cm.
Western art unattributed:
18. Detail of fig. 17. Virgin Mary , detail from the Crucifixion of fig. 17
Western art unattributed:
24 Detail from the Ascension of Christ in One of the occhi in the Dome. Duomo, Florence. Designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1443.
Western art unattributed:
Four Heads of Franciscans from a Window above the Capella Bardi, Santa Croce, Florence.
Book Review
Glass in Architecture and Decoration
07/1938 | 424 | 73
Pages: 46
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Reviewer:
Thorpe, W. A. (Thorpe, W. A.; T., W. A.; Thorpe, William Arnold)
Subjects
subjects:
Glassmakers / Glass / Techniques
subjects:
Architecture / Stained glass
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Glass in Architecture and Decoration | author: Cantab, B. A. , author: Frost, A. C. , author: McGrath, Raymond , author: Turner, W. E. S.
Article
Verzelini and His Followers
10/1925 | 271 | 47
Pages: 182-183+187
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Author:
Rackham, Bernard (Rackham, Bernard; R., B.; Rackham, B.; R.)
Subjects
artists:
Verzelini, Giacomo
artists:
Bowes, Jerome
dates:
1550-1599 / 1600-1649
places:
Italy / Venice / England
subjects:
Glassware / Drinking glasses / Venetian glass / Glass
subjects:
Glassmakers
Illustrations
Attributed works:
A-Two Views of an Engraved Glass, Dated 1583, by Jacomo Verzelini. (Mr. Hamilton Clements); B-Engraved Glass, Dated 1602, Here Attributed to Sir Jerome Bowes. (Victoria and Albert Museum); C-Engraved Wineglass, Flute-Shaped, Height 41.3 cm. (Royal Albert Museum, Exeter). Verzelini and His Followers
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