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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
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS IN FRANCE 193 it in both; but there is a subtle difference inthe Rouen work—a little more grace, and morecare that the foliage shall not only decorate thewhole space of white, but form a symmetricalpattern on each individual quarry, a tendencywhich, however, may also be found in English worktowards the end of the century. Of later fourteenth century work there is notvery much in France. The country was devastatedby war, and there can have been little moneyor heart left for painted windows. Whicheverside of the channel the style of the early four-teenth century originated, it is quite certain thatthe next great movement came from England. 25 XII LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS IN ENGLAND (TRANSITIONAL—GLOUCESTER AND THE WORKOF THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL) PLATE XXXVI NICHOLAS BLACKBURN AND HIS WIFE,FROM EAST WINDOW OF ALL SAINTS, NORTH STREET, YORK Fifteenth Century
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XII LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY GLASS IN ENGLAND (TRANSITIONAL—GLOUCESTER AND THE WORKOF THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL) An interesting thing about the design of stainedglass in the fourteenth century is that it neverstands still, but changes more rapidly than atany other period in its history. At Gloucester,not more than from ten to twenty years afterthe latest of the windows I have been describing,the great east window of the Cathedral was filledwith glass, which already faintly foreshadows thechange into the style of the succeeding period. The Severn valley is rich in glass of the four-teenth century, the work of a school which mayhave had its headquarters at Gloucester, where, in later times, at all events, there were important 197 198 STAINED GLASS glass-works, which may still be seen in seven-teenth century views of the city. The fourteenth century glass at Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, and Wells is all of this school, and differs in many little ways from the work at York, among which are the fr

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