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Glass: A Guide to the Church Windows of EnglandFull Free CollectionThe magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windowstend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. How to Look atStained Glass is a fresh, unstuffy guide, which explores the medium by themes,patterns, designs, and effects. Using an A-Z format to reveal a multitude offascinating details - all the way from apples to zig-zags - it makes looking atgloriously colourful, artistically important windows entertaining and rewarding. Thislayman's guide requires no previous historical, artistic or religious knowledge and theA-Z miscellany is in keeping with the pot-luck mix of windows to be found in mostchurches. It covers all the major periods and styles from medieval to modern,Victorian to post-war, eighteenth century to Arts and Crafts, figurative to abstract,and examines the fascinating and evolving iconography of stained glass. Illustrated inblack & white and colour and with a list of the top 30 places to see outstandingexamples, How to Look at Stained Glass is all that is needed to make sense of andenjoy the array of stained glass windows in the churches of England.

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