Notes:
"A Quintet book"--T.p. verso.
Published by Thames & Hudson in 2003 under the title: The history of stained glass : the art of light medieval to contemporary.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-286) and index.
Contents:
1. Symbol and story: the art of stained glass --
2. Origins, materials, and the glazier's art / by Mary Clerkin Higgins --
3. The revival of monumental architecture and the place of glass --
4. The age of great cathedrals: the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries --
5. Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century transformation of the narrative --
6. Large-scale Renaissance stained glass --
7. The revival of stained glass in the United Kingdom and the United States --
8. Historic revivals in Germany, France, Belgium, and Italy --
9. The opalescent, art nouveau, and arts and crafts movements --
10. The glass of the twentieth century.
