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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"stained glass"”.
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Stained glass as a medium of religious education
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939, no p. 19 in original.
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The stained glass war memorial windows of Charles William Kelsey
… England and emigrated to Montreal in 1922. His stained glass designs can be found in England, Australia, the United States and in over sixty-eight churches in Canada. This thesis focuses on his war memorial windows commissioned between 1921 and 1956. Forty-two windows were studied: ten memorials …
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Advanced Fabrication of Interactive Stained Glass for Designing Smart Interior Objects
This research explores traditional stained glass within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) as a novel digital fabrication method for creating interactive everyday things with sensor and actuating capabilities. Our work is motivated by the noticeable gap in hybrid craft literature whereby …
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Stained glass : an investigation into the design potentials of an architectural material
Colored glass is a building material usually associated with churches or days of bygone glory. Yet the material would apparently have much to offer in window openings, curtain walls, even as structural block in the creating of contemporary spatial environments. The thesis examines two periods in …
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Color, Texture and The Space In-Between: An Architectural Intervention of Stained Glass
This thesis studies the use of stained glass as a building material and how it can enhance the visual presence of light, materiality and space in a building interior. Lighting, color, and texture were integral paths of study which culminated in a stained glass installation at the concrete Cube at …
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Making the transparent apparent: Studies of key women artists in the history of ecumenical stained glass
… imbalance, acknowledging that the work of women stained glass artists warrants more attention than it has thus far received. It argues that a feminist history needs to be established so that aspiring female stained glass artists can see their own achievable potential in the accomplishments of …
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An examination of women's piety as depicted in medieval and early modern stained glass.
… England. Chapter One introduces Oxfordshire stained glass as the area of inquiry, with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) database serving as the primary source reference. Both the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York and the British Academy collaborate on this database. …
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Where the Glass Glows: Unpacking the Therapeutic Experiences of Adult Students in a Community-Based Open Glass Studio During a Pandemic
… analysis to learn about how adult students of stained glass and makers of stained glass in a community-based open glass studio understand their experience of working with glass during the CO VID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to acquire an understanding about how working with glass was …
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Reflections of American Spirituality
<p>The Franz Mayer and F. X. Zettler stained glass studios of Munich, Germany were the largest producers of stained glass exported to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the San Francisco Bay Area both firms sold over four hundred windows between 1889 and 1959 …
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LLUM: Light and Reflection
… it was in the solemn churches that I first saw stained glass and my aesthetic awakening occurred. My first impression was of a "living painting". By this I mean that a stained glass window is a non-static painting, as its appearance is dependant on the quality of light that shines though its …
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Recreating van der Wielen and de Groot’s (2019) thermocasted Paraloid™ B-72, with a twist.
Conserving stained glass is very challenging – when a replacement glass piece is inserted, the lead can become distorted due to the inflexibility of the glass, resulting in more pieces dislodging. Van der Wielen and de Groot devised a method to use thermocast resin for replacement parts because of …
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Making the martyr: the liturgical persona of Saint Thomas Becket in visual imagery
… Saint Thomas Becket, and the ways in which the stained glass narratives depicting his life at Sens and Chartres Cathedrals make use of this image and work in tandem with the liturgy to present an image of Becket as an ideal Christian martyr. However, rather than adopting the ideas present in the …
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
… expanse of space was made rich with Gothic Style stained glass, including three rose windows. Stylistically and iconographically the rose windows at Chartres drew from within the history of all rose windows. Technically the windows reflected the techniques of the stained glass craft. It is the …
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The history of the Tiffany windows at the Erskine and American Church, Montreal
This thesis examines the history of the twenty stained glass windows at the Erskine and American Church, Montreal, attributed to the Tiffany Studios of New York (1879-1932); from their original installation in the American Presbyterian Church from 1897 to 1932, until their placement in the Erskine …
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Filled With Absence: Spaces for Mourning
… architecture. Sculpture, mosaics, paintings, stained-glass windows, all blatantly told the beginning, the morals, the epics, and future of humanity. Today these elements have all but disappeared along with the stories that they told. One story still common to humanity is the act of death, …
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Inverse Illumination Design with Genetic Programming
… artificial lights, room materials, windows, and glass properties. A number of case studies are examined, including many-objective problems involving up to 7 illumination requirements, the design of a decorative wall of lights, and the creation of a stained-glass window for a large public space. …
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Sacred, Circles of Light:An Examination of Six San Francisco Bay Area rose Windows and Their Relationship to a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition
<p>The development of stained glass rose windows began in Western Europe with the emergence of Gothic religious architecture in the mid-twelfth century. Rose windows occupy a position of symbolic significance in late medieval cathedrals and churches. They employ geometric precision to embody the …
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