English and French Medieval Stained Glass in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Автор:Jane Hayward, Mary Shepard, Cynthia Clark Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 512 ISBN: 0300193181 This comprehensive two-volume catalogue covers the outstanding collection of English and French medieval stained glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Written by curator Jane Hayward, the catalogue is posthumously published as Part I in the Corpus Vitrearum USA series and represents the culmination of Hayward's pioneering work in the field, from the years immediately following World War II, when Hayward first journeyed to France to study medieval stained glass with Louis Grodecki and Jean Lafond, to the month before her death in 1994. Hayward was unrelenting in her efforts to research and write about the Metropolitan Museum's collection. The fruits of this long-standing work features 123 panels examined in depth, ranging from 12th-century border ornament from the Royal Abbey Church of Saint-Denis to early 16th-century English Passion glass.Every panel catalogued is also illustrated, frequently with details as well as comparative illustrations. Full descriptions,...
