Angels & Icons Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870: Pre-Raphaelite - Hardcover

Waters, William; Carew-Cox, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0953280136 ISBN 13: 9780953280131

Publisher: Seraphim Press, 2012

Synopsis

The British Isles has an outstanding collection of stained glass. It has always been recognised that the glass of the medieval period in Britain is among the finest to be found but the glass of the 19th century has never been justly regarded. These islands initiated the revival of the true principles of glass construction which developed into the fabrication of some of the best windows in existence. Pre-Raphaelite stained glass has, in recent years, come to mean glass by Morris, Burne-Jones and Rossetti. However there was a group of artists who were designing windows before the foundation of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. They had contact with Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt and produced glass truer to the original principles of the Brotherhood. The leader of this earlier group was John Richard Clayton, a man with wide experience of the decorative arts and associated with the leading architects of the time. Encouraged by Gilbert Scott and utilising his close friendships with G.E. Street and William Burges, he was able to apply the ideas of the Brotherhood to the buildings that were erected at the height of the Gothic Revival. Surrounding himself with like-minded designers he established a workshop which included Clement Heaton, James Butler and his partner Alfred Bell which mirrored the earlier group of seven. Joining them were two of the most talented designers of the 19th century, Robert Turnill Bayne and Alfred Hassam. Throughout the country churches are brilliantly lit by their windows. They set about reforming stained glass design producing a body of work that rivalled Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. yet has undeservedly been overlooked. William Waters's extensive research complimented by Alastair Carew-Cox's sympathetic plate camera photography, aims to redress the balance and illustrate the work of these designers. Angels & Icons includes an informative gazetteer to help readers to locate and discover these beautiful windows for themselves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seraphim Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0953280136
• ISBN 13: 9780953280131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Carew-Cox Alastair