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With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed early modern optical technology and visuality. It also significantly influenced contemporaneous art, religion, and science. References to glass are found throughout the Bible and in medieval hagiography and poetry. For instance, glass is mentioned in descriptions of Heavenly Jerusalem, the Beatific Vision, and the Incarnation. At the same time, a well-known Islamic scientific treatise, which likened a portion of the eye's anatomy to glass, entered the scientific circles of the Latin West. Amidst this complex web of glass-related phenomena early modern Italian artists used glass in some of their most important artworks but, until now, no study has offered a comprehensive consideration of the important role glass played in shaping the art of the Italian Renaissance. Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whether it be depictions of glass or actual glass in the form of stained glass, gilded glass, and transparent glass-to resonate with the period's complex visuality and achieve their artistic goals. Such an interdisciplinary approach to the visual culture of early modern Italy is particularly well-suited to an introductory humanities course as well as classes on media studies and late medieval and early Renaissance art history. It is also ideal for a general reader interested in art history or issues of materiality.

Glass art. --- Italy --- Civilization

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Hubert Spierling gehört zu den herausragenden Glasgestaltern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seit den 1950er Jahren hat er einen gewichtigen Beitrag zum künstlerischen Weltruf der modernen deutschen Glasmalerei geleistet. Der 1925 im sauerländischen Menden geborene, heute in Krefeld lebende und in ungebrochener Schaffenskraft arbeitende Künstler hat zahlreiche Verglasungen für bedeutende mittelalterliche Kirchen wie den Dom zu Limburg oder die Abteikirche Maria Laach geschaffen. Zugleich entwarf Hubert Spierling Glasfenster für Meisterwerke der modernen Architektur. Zum 85. Geburtstag Hubert Spierlings 2010 wird hiermit eine reich illustrierte Aufsatzsammlung mitsamt Werkverzeichnis vorgelegt.

Art, German --- Glass art --- Christian art and symbolism --- History --- Spierling, Hubert,

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With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed early modern optical technology and visuality. It also significantly influenced contemporaneous art, religion, and science. References to glass are found throughout the Bible and in medieval hagiography and poetry. For instance, glass is mentioned in descriptions of Heavenly Jerusalem, the Beatific Vision, and the Incarnation. At the same time, a well-known Islamic scientific treatise, which likened a portion of the eye's anatomy to glass, entered the scientific circles of the Latin West. Amidst this complex web of glass-related phenomena early modern Italian artists used glass in some of their most important artworks but, until now, no study has offered a comprehensive consideration of the important role glass played in shaping the art of the Italian Renaissance. Seeing Renaissance Glass explores how artists such as Giotto, Duccio, Nicola Pisano, Simone Martini, and others employed the medium of glass-whether it be depictions of glass or actual glass in the form of stained glass, gilded glass, and transparent glass-to resonate with the period's complex visuality and achieve their artistic goals. Such an interdisciplinary approach to the visual culture of early modern Italy is particularly well-suited to an introductory humanities course as well as classes on media studies and late medieval and early Renaissance art history. It is also ideal for a general reader interested in art history or issues of materiality.

Optics and art --- Glass. --- Glass art --- History --- History. --- Italy --- Civilization --- Art --- Decorative arts --- Amorphous substances --- Ceramics --- Glazing --- Art and optics

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Colloques --- Colloquia --- Kunstnijverheid --- Métiers d'art --- Glass manufacture --- Glass art --- Verre --- Art du verre --- History --- Congresses --- Fabrication --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Congrès --- Glassware --- Verre, travail du

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Glass painting and staining --- #TCON:CCHTB --- Glass, Stained --- Painted glass --- Stained glass --- Decoration and ornament --- Glass, Ornamental --- Glass art --- Glass craft --- Painting --- Glass, Colored --- Stained glass industry