Medienkombination, Englisch, 762 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 308 mm, Gewicht: 4 g
Medienkombination, Englisch, 762 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 308 mm, Gewicht: 4 g
Reihe: Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain
ISBN: 978-0-19-726544-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
from the transepts are attributed to the workshop of Thomas Glazier, who had worked for William of Wykeham, Chancellor of England. Seven windows in the Old Library contain the earliest glazing to survive from any English library. The glass will therefore be of interest to many students of English
medieval art and architecture.
A general introduction also explores the potential of the monument for study within a university context. Merton was a model for the self-governing graduate college of the later middle ages in England. The glass invites consideration of the relationship between art and ideas, in a lost astrological window, for example; and the self-presentation of the scholar and college communities, both to themselves and to the society that supported them. As a result of the central place of the universities
in national life, the Merton glass was an inspiration during the Gothic revival to artists and glazing businesses such as the Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais, and Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
The medieval glass is catalogued, fully illustrated and supported with restoration diagrams. There are forty colour plates. The post-medieval glass is also catalogued.