DOI issue:
No. 60 (March, 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0140
Studio- Talk
have painted it ? Yet I could never bring myself to pressing along the lines of the leading," explained
touch it. In many windows of the same date the the Professor. " Every little bit of the glass has
feet are beautifully finished; but look at those, thus its place marked out on it, and thus no mis-
Still one must leave them as they are ; it would be take is possible in piecing the whole together
sacrilege to again." The
change them. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ man was, in fact,
See how differ- placing each frag-
ent this art is ment on its ap-
from painting. wK/r propriate space,
No massing of W as he freed it
colour here, but W ^ from its ancient
everything bro- W ^ leading. The
ken up: even W ^ pieces were so
the architectural jf *: w j± ^ thickly encrusted
details are blue, ^, ^ with dust as to
green, yellow, gflk \ be opaque unless
red. The great held up against
secret of success K ^•■H^fc. 5 the light. "How
in a stained m will you clean
glass window is & m them ?" I asked,
the finding of "We cannot
methods for the flfl clean them," was
introduction of ""^^^"^ ■ t h e answer,
the greatest va- B^Ush- " ^ ou can wash
riety of colour- a modern glass
ing ; the sense of ' ■ window, but not
repose must an ancient one
come not from M the colours would
unity but from m very likely come
the judicious i& M off. The most
blending of an we can do is to
infinite number ' . M brush them, and
of shades and Jm if the dust is very
tints. Are ' M hard and thick,
modern colours m scrape them with
necessarily stri- AH an iron tool
dent ? By no but great care is
means. The needed."
fault does not
lie in the colours, HIP' Prof, de .Mat-
but in the firing. -ti teis is respon-
1 sometimes Hk m r—............., ' ........-__"---
paint and fire Mfe^:....... ________.. . _____ .. _____JBH windows recently
mine three or -invocation" by e. vikstrom unveiled in S.
four times be- [See Helsingfors Studio-Talk) Trinita, the large
fore I get the church which
depth I want." _ visitors to Florence will remember opposite Vieus-
seux's reading-rooms. A fine specimen of his art
In another room a workman was taking apart a may also be seen in the middle north chapel
window in which the pieces to be repainted had under the dome of the cathedral: the upper
been marked with a white cross. Before him lay half of the window has here had to be entirely
a large sheet of paper on which the skeleton of renewed. In the sacristy of S. M. Novella, too,
the window, so to speak, was traced out. " We do the lower half of the window had been completely
that by placing the window on the paper and then broken away, and has been restored by Prof, de
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have painted it ? Yet I could never bring myself to pressing along the lines of the leading," explained
touch it. In many windows of the same date the the Professor. " Every little bit of the glass has
feet are beautifully finished; but look at those, thus its place marked out on it, and thus no mis-
Still one must leave them as they are ; it would be take is possible in piecing the whole together
sacrilege to again." The
change them. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ man was, in fact,
See how differ- placing each frag-
ent this art is ment on its ap-
from painting. wK/r propriate space,
No massing of W as he freed it
colour here, but W ^ from its ancient
everything bro- W ^ leading. The
ken up: even W ^ pieces were so
the architectural jf *: w j± ^ thickly encrusted
details are blue, ^, ^ with dust as to
green, yellow, gflk \ be opaque unless
red. The great held up against
secret of success K ^•■H^fc. 5 the light. "How
in a stained m will you clean
glass window is & m them ?" I asked,
the finding of "We cannot
methods for the flfl clean them," was
introduction of ""^^^"^ ■ t h e answer,
the greatest va- B^Ush- " ^ ou can wash
riety of colour- a modern glass
ing ; the sense of ' ■ window, but not
repose must an ancient one
come not from M the colours would
unity but from m very likely come
the judicious i& M off. The most
blending of an we can do is to
infinite number ' . M brush them, and
of shades and Jm if the dust is very
tints. Are ' M hard and thick,
modern colours m scrape them with
necessarily stri- AH an iron tool
dent ? By no but great care is
means. The needed."
fault does not
lie in the colours, HIP' Prof, de .Mat-
but in the firing. -ti teis is respon-
1 sometimes Hk m r—............., ' ........-__"---
paint and fire Mfe^:....... ________.. . _____ .. _____JBH windows recently
mine three or -invocation" by e. vikstrom unveiled in S.
four times be- [See Helsingfors Studio-Talk) Trinita, the large
fore I get the church which
depth I want." _ visitors to Florence will remember opposite Vieus-
seux's reading-rooms. A fine specimen of his art
In another room a workman was taking apart a may also be seen in the middle north chapel
window in which the pieces to be repainted had under the dome of the cathedral: the upper
been marked with a white cross. Before him lay half of the window has here had to be entirely
a large sheet of paper on which the skeleton of renewed. In the sacristy of S. M. Novella, too,
the window, so to speak, was traced out. " We do the lower half of the window had been completely
that by placing the window on the paper and then broken away, and has been restored by Prof, de
122