Thirteenth-Century Glass of the Salisbury Chapter House
| Autor: | Pamela Z. Blum |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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| Zdroj: | Gesta. 37:142-149 |
| ISSN: | 2169-3099 0016-920X |
| DOI: | 10.2307/767253 |
| Popis: | This article deals with the history of the thirteenth-century grisaille and figural glass and the heraldic shields originally in the windows of the chapter house at Salisbury. The fabric accounts begin to record the removal of this glass during the reign of Elizabeth I. The relatively infrequent references to resetting the old glass and the rapid progress in mounting new glass suggest that, beginning in 1558, the reglazing involved primarily clear (or Normandy) quarries. A separate gathering of folios in the accounts datable to the year 1582 specifies the running feet of "nue glasse" installed in every bay of the chapter house. However inoffensive to iconoclasts the grisaille patterns of those windows may have been, the records indicate that by 1643, when hostilities during the Civil Wars reached Salisbury, large amounts of new glass had been installed at the expense of the old. Drawings made in 1802 by John Carter as artist to the Society of Antiquaries of London provided a visual survey of every ornamen... |
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