Stained Glass Windows of the Church of Christ the King in Gliwice. Iconography and Restoration by KOMAR Beata

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History of materials: a new tool for conservation of glass and ceramics by Carla Machado, Fernanda Carvalho, Marta Pessoa e Costa, Sara Martins

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Marquage héraldique, cartographie et histoire des lignages : les relevés de Gaignières à la chapelle des chanoinesses de Luynes by Sarah Héquette

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Caractérisation du phénomène de brunissement du vitrail et évaluation de traitements de réduction by Elisabeth Venault de Bourleuf

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Les édifices néogothiques parisiens et leurs verrières : églises et chapelles catholiques by Martine Callias Bey

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De l’Anjou à la Bohême : le double portrait équestre de Pierre de Rohan-Gié by Jeanne Alis

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« Écrans de lumière » : l’art du vitrail dans l’architecture de Frank Lloyd Wright by Claude MASSU

“…While the subject has not been much researched until recently, Wright’s art of the stained glass is an original and essential part of his architectural ideal. …”
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Les vitraux de l’École de Pharmacie de Paris by Françoise Gatouillat

“…The new school was richly decorated with sculpture, wall-painting and stained-glass. According to the architect’s wishes, Émile Hirsch, his collaborator on previous restoration operations, was commissioned for the stained-glass windows. …”
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Foreword by J.-A. van den Berg, J. Meyer

“…In many churches worldwide, the sunlight is bright and colourful as it brings to life awe-inspiring images through stained-glass windows. The front page of the Festchrift for colleague Kobus Schoeman depicts one of the stained-glass windows of the DRC mother church in Stellenbosch. …”
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Witraże dziecięcego „bycia w życiu” – dobrostan versus obrazy codzienności by Justyna Kusztal, Małgorzata Turczyk

“…This means attempting to describe a child’s stained glass window „being in life”, actual or only apparent participation in particular areas of child’s activity in recent years. …”
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John Piper et Benjamin Britten : le renouveau de l’opéra anglais et ses décors by Sophie Aymès

“…The designs form a part of Piper’s pictorial work whose logical conclusion found expression in stained-glass windows. From the architectural designs for The Rape of Lucretia to the window he designed for the new Coventry Cathedral and to the last opera sets for Death in Venice, he created backdrops for Britten’s works that provided a sense of aesthetic continuity whilst reflecting the contradictions of opera as a social form of art in post-war Britain.…”
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George Desvallières et la Grande Guerre by Catherine Ambroselli de Bayser

“…There followed such monumental works of pictorial expression as the Saint Privat Chapel in the Gard region (1920-1925), which will be discussed in this paper, the stained-glass windows at the Douaumont Ossuary (1927), the decoration of Wittenheim Church in Alsace (1929-1931), the Chapel of the Cité Saint Yves (1931) and the Way of the Cross at the Holy Spirit Church (1935) in Paris.* “George” without the “s” because of his Scottish ancestry.…”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. …”
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