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Show 73· #54.) way Controlled, light through colored glass as to provide is filtered in such uplifting, mystical atmosphere, filling an house of worship with a transcendental air. a the (See slides #126, #150, #168.) Thus ium as ing space summarized, the either a serve stained glass flat surface art can ural devices. of stained or as a exercise these plane, uses glass, while is glass provided by filter of colored and architecture. Stained two-dimensional uses' The physical relies bound free to take a on light enter- by which means specific the to the med- architect- restrictions of the variety of shapes, sizes, and positions. The major windows. way art will become part glass Transmitting light intrusions of man into the room, while and nature, the exterior of the of,a building and the interior decorating building, windows, when keeping from inner seclusion. made is variety usually dictated by ever, it is people The and frequently therefore, style and determined by any number of difficult to well as reliefs mere are How- space. reasons and/or explain haphazard are the shapes (and contents) of windows [They are] a hotchpotch of periods single church. and styles, with window openings of all kinds, single LANCET two-light, multi-light, with tracery, wide, stanchioned classical windows with semi-circular heads, or modern, rectangular and metal framed.6 how in Less a numerous than profiles of the many puzzle, shapes of windows interesting their contents. as do manage to pieces of a stained as glass, of forms in which windows the architectural in the out filled with art become celebrations with the outside world rather than is glass keep the wall openings as |
