Author : Edwin Atlee Barber
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333287498
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (874 download)
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum, Vol. 5 by : Edwin Atlee Barber
Download or read book Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum, Vol. 5 written by Edwin Atlee Barber and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Museum, Vol. 5: July, 1907 Stained glass is pre-eminently a color art, an art almost exclusively ecclesiastical. A window is formed of bits of colored glass which are cut into the shapes of faces, or figures, or robes, or canopies, or whatever you want and whatever the subject demands; then features are painted on the faces, folds on the robes, and so forth - not with color, but merely with brown shading; then, when this shading has been burnt into the glass in a kiln, the pieces are put together into a picture by means of grooved strips of lead, into which they fit (stained Glass Work. C. W. Whall, p. The paint, spoken of above, consists of a brown pigment ground up with powdered soft glass (or equivalent silicate) which, when the glass is fired, fuses and becomes part and parcel of it. The powder is first mixed with gum so that it can be painted on the glass with an ordinary brush. This paint is practically Opaque, and must not be confused with the stain and enamels of later centuries. In the rare cases where it is used thin it became a muddy, brown smear. No other paint was known to the early glazier - artist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
