If you ask an average person about stained glass and the reaction is probably something like “Oh, yes, yes – it’s beautiful. I like it.” But there is still much more to stained glass than aesthetics. This ancient art form that has a rich history throughout the life of humanity, and through the installation in your home, you bring the letter that the history into your daily life.
The window has historical roots
Historically, the ancient Romans as a leading manufacturing and credited to the use of colored glass in architecture. However, the windows really made their mark in Gothic churches – which is more important in itself. Because the pre-Gothic churches, and even preferably, limited graphics, the surfaces of walls, mosaics, painting, or paintings. But still expensive decoration, churches that have started their “space” and began to decorate their windows with stained glass windows. The window has spiritual roots, spiritual too, as long as the windows of the church of his patrons follow a colorful experience very spiritual discourse. It is not uncommon for the calming effect that the sun than we were then beaming through the stained glass experience.
Stark, based on Christian themes, the most popular designs depicting scenes from the Bible, and only a few centuries later, the hands of famous artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Ghiberti, Donatello, and naked.
Today, however, the themes revolve around nature of stained glass flowers or simply as an interesting geometric patterns – and you can find stained glass windows by Henri Matisse at Venice, France, and Marc Chagall in Jerusalem. And of course we all know the wonderful work of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Stained Glass Mystery Solved
One can not help wondering how the stained glass windows – they are part of Windows for beautiful French doors and there is a shadow of a small lamp. The window is so fascinating in beauty as in its creation.
In the past, painting on glass began as a wood! A stained glass artist draws a design on a piece of wood, which had the same size of a particular window. Then the artist will paint the glass with mineral salts (or oxides), how it was done. If a color proof) as too dark (like red, the artist would ‘flash’ it – that is, ensuring a very thin layer on a much thicker layer of clear glass. In fact, the technique was flashing often used to make even more painful for Windows even more interesting visual effects.The artist then cut the glass according to the pattern drawn on the wood. Housed in a temporary suspension of colored glass was lightly painted in dark tones, does not just design one to three dimensional appearance, but also to mitigate some colored areas. To highlight a particular area can, the artist scratched a little by the dark pigment. The result is nothing less than a nice selection of free fun colors.