![]() ![]() ![]() "Stained Glass and the Gothic Revival: On the Difference between Painted Glass and Coloured Glass” (Somers Clarke,.Charles Heath Wilson on Stained Glass (1865).The Revival of Stained Glass in the Nineteenth Century.A Brief Introduction to Victorian Stained Glass.Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (London: Penguin, 2008), p. Set at the meeting point of material and immaterial worlds, as a body is animated by the soul, so the visible glass is animated by invisible and unreflected light. If the window was symbolic, in romantic portraits, of the divided self, the meeting between interior and exterior realities, then the stained glass window was perhaps the epitome of Victorian romanticism, more serious and sacred than the Georgian. Want to know how navigate the Victorian Web? Click here. ![]()
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