Geometry And Art Of Stained Glass

For this assignment, I’ve been assigned the stained glass window, that are decorated in the church. Stain glass windows have a great deal of history in the church. They represent the true meaning of that church and tell stories about Jesus. Stain glass windows are suspected to be started from Egyptians, however, stain glass windows were also used by Romans; they would place them inside of their homes. During 646 AD, some of the oldest pieces of stained glass were found in St. Paul’s Monastery. However, during the 10th century, some of the earliest pieces of stained glass were found in, Lorsch Abbey in Germany. During, the Renaissance period, stained glass windows, began to decline, however, they did revive back up again; in the 1800s. Stained

Ziggy Marley once said, “God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.” In the same way, Abbot Suger built the Basilica of St. Denis so that sunlight would flood throughout the building and symbolize the power of God inviting visitors into the cathedral. The Basilica of St. Denis was an artistic response to the rise of the Catholic Church’s power for it was modeled to be a physical representation of heaven, which the church heavily preached upon. (Thesis) As the basilica represented the shift from Romanesque architecture to Gothic, Abbot Suger introduced new techniques that transformed cathedrals to look more spacious and “heavenly”. (Map Statement #1-Art History) By allowing sunlight to come

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle is an important symbol to Jeannette and the rest of the Walls family. The Glass Castle represents hope to the children at a young age. Jeanette's dad loved telling stories to her when she was little “about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle” (Walls 25). In this case, the Glass Castle represents hope and luxury. The Walls are hoping for a life that is good and a luxurious bright future. Unfortunately, the family " 'never did build that Glass Castle"' (Walls 279). The Glass Castle represents something else at this point in the book, an unacheivable dream. Glass has the ability to shatter, this proves that Jeannette's father wanted something unattainable

The kids will begin with a blank piece of white construction paper roughly around 12x18 inches. The kids will then be allowed to glue on various shapes in various colors and sizes in order to create their stained glass window. The kids will be given black strips of paper as well in order for them further their design. There will be an example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s windows at every table but the children will be encouraged to use their own imagination and create their own design.

Every religion has its own approach to art and architecture. An assessment between different traditions can offer an illuminating insight into the varying religious outlooks and theologies. Architecture, as well as art, is influenced by a number of forces in society, in the environment, in the psychology of the people who produce it, and in different institutions. It is an expression of inner feelings and beliefs and so naturally is influenced by religion in many societies. Religious architecture is created to experience the sacred, to provide a place into which spiritual energies flow and reflect a sense of the divine. Some

Edward Linenthal, an expert in religion and American history, offers examples of such elements, like how “Slanted glass…[was used] in exhibit cases to draw visitors in…” and that “…walls were not painted, pipes were left exposed…” (Linenthal 170). Everything about the design was intentional; both the industrial aesthetic and the slanted glass help set the stage for the heart wrenching narrative of how a broken country allowed millions to be slaughtered, creating a vessel which serves to preserve and educate viewers about what

Jan Van Eyck’s, The Ghent, and Giovanni Bellini’s, San Zaccaria, are both altarpieces. The Ghent altarpiece is located in Saint Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent and it is a private chapel. The period style of this piece is northern Renaissance and its medium is oil on wood. The San Zaccaria altarpiece is located in Venice and it is also a church. The period style is Italian Renaissance and it is also made out of oil on wood.

The Chartres Cathedral was known as a popular pilgrimage because it serves as the most beautiful cathedral in France. It has the western architecture and the pointed arches, flying buttresses and so many stained glass rose windows and sculptures. This cathedral is recognized for its stained-glass windows. Direct light does not enter the building and that sends out an intense spiritual feeling. Light is only filtered thought the windows. “The interior of the Chartres cathedral is remarkable. The nave, wider that of any other cathedral in France (52

Mathematics and art have always been closely related: Golden ratio, symmetry, proportion and geometry are elements in the art; not surprisingly, many great artists of history have been great mathematicians; they have been supported in mathematics to express reality with an artistic language. By definition geometry comes from the Greek: Ge = earth and Metron = measure. That is, it is the branch of mathematics that studies the measurement of the Earth that is concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs. (Geometry. (2015).

Three dimensional art was accomplished during the early southern renaissance by the use of the technique linear perspective. Linear perspective is type of perspective in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a vanishing point on the horizon. An artist with the name of Masaccio created a new movement in Florentine painting with his fresco, or a painting done in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, Trinity. The artwork gave an illusion of a stone funerary monument and altar table set in a framed niche on the wall. The use of the vanishing point located at the eye level of the viewers of the church allowed for the viewers to see the art as if they were looking

In Jeannette Walls’s memoir The Glass Castle she recounts her dream of build a glass castle for himself and his family to live in. Throughout the story her father goes as far as making blue prints and marking where it will the castle will be built, but he never actually gets around to doing it. The father is easily distracted by other things and never admits to it, he always has an excuse. This is exactly why the glass castle never came to be. Jeannette as a naive and hopeful child describes her father’s plan like this, “Dad... was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert.” (Walls 25). If I could build my own version of the glass castle I would have a house with three bedrooms and at least two and half bathrooms. There would be a study/library, a music room, an art studio, a home theater, kitchen and living, and a hot tub in the back accompanied with a beautiful garden that would have a small fountain.

“The Ghent Altarpiece” by Jan Van Eyck, is a piece of art worth writing about. The subject matter of this work of art is God enthroned with golden jewelry, fine clothing, and just basically surrounded by gold and is even sitting on a golden throne. I think the content is quite simple. I think Van Eyck is trying to say that God is a ruler that deeply values worldly things. This contradicts the belief that God is an advocate for self-sacrifice and humbleness.

This time, the furnace for heating the glass is located in the middle of the painting. However, now, there are two men on each side of the furnace heating up some glass on one of the metal glass holding sticks. What’s interesting though is that both of them use absolutely no protection against heat. They even have their sleeves rolled up. What confuses me is that they are holding a metal rod directly into heat instead of with gloves and with my experience with holding a piece of metal to heat in electronic circuit building, it hurts. The painting, like the last, has furnace cover doors, brick furnace, and the same children present situation. Right below the furnace, there are two baskets, one filled with red glass shards and one filled with blue glass shards which at first glimpse I thought was the finished product until I took a closer look and saw that they did not resemble glass works but instead broken pieces of glass. This intrigued me because I would not have expected people from a hundred years ago to be thinking about saving material. Most of the glass shard are probably leftover material cut off during the process of making the glass product but maybe it is also old and

Brooks Koff, the second artist being spotlighted, has a series of stained-glass on display. The contrasts and

The origins of stained glass are unknown, but archeologists have found many examples of this type of artwork created during the classical period throughout many cultures worldwide. The earliest examples of stained glass artwork found in existence are Egyptian stained glass beads created in 2700 BC. Later, the affluent of Rome commissioned artists to create stained glass windows for their homes. However, it wasn’t until the dawning of the Gothic period during the eighth century that the form and artistry of the stained glass window took on a whole new meaning. The particular stained glass windows I would like to use in my critique and analysis of an example of stained glass within the Gothic period is the Rose window and lancets found in the Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France, ca. 1220.