Identifier: stainedglassofmi00arno (find matches)
Title: Stained glass of the middle ages in England & France
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Arnold, Hugh Saint, Lawrence Bradford, 1885-
Subjects: Glass painting and staining -- England Glass painting and staining -- France Art, Medieval
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black

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ss running down fromtheir camp-fire. In this case the natron acted as aflux and enabled the sand to melt in the heat ofthe camp-fire, which, however, must have been avery large and hot one.Egyptian Now, whether this story is true or not, it&^*^®- cannot have been the beginning of more than alocal industry, for the art of glass-making wasknown in Egypt from very early times indeed. Its earliest use seems to have been in theimitation of precious stones, and perhaps for thisreason it seems from the first to have been made incolours as well as in white ; but the art of blowingit into vessels was certainly known in the fourth 1 Plinys word nitrutn does not mean what we call nitre, whichis potassium nitrate, but natron, or natural carbonate of soda, of whichdeposits are found in the Nile Delta. It is this that is meant in thepassage in Jeremiah : Though thou wash thee with nitre, and takethee much sope. ... PLATE III METHUSELAH,CANTERBURY, ORIGLVALLY L\ CHOIR CLERESTORY Twelfth Century
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THE BEGINNINGS OF STAINED GLASS 17 dynasty, and in some of the paintings in the tombsthe process is actually represented. It was not, however, till the first century of theChristian Era that any one seems to have thoughtof using glass to fill windows. In Egypt naturallythe climate made it unnecessary, and even in Italy,where it can be cold enough in winter, civilizationhad evolved a style of architecture independent ofglass. Nevertheless it was introduced in Rome under Romanthe first emperors. Caligula had his palace ^ ^^*windows glazed, and Seneca mentions it as oneof the luxuries which had been introduced into lifein his time, but which did not really add to aphilosophers happiness. Its introduction was,however, very gradual, and even two centuries laterits use was still quoted as evidence of excessiveluxuriousness. Remains of these Roman windows have beenfound at Pompeii and elsewhere. At Pompeiithey are in the form of small panes of glass held, inone case in a wooden, and in anoth

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