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> i should think that the two media are, to a certain extent, mutually
> exclusive, especially if the glass is of the very "saturated color" type we
> see at Chartres.
Christopher,
They work rather well together in S. Francesco at Assisi, and some of the family
chapels in S. Croce, Florence, still have a wonderful combination of altarpiece,
frescoes and stained glass.
> would i be right in assuming that most of the (surviving) Italian glass was
> quite late --14th c. or later-- and that there wasn't quite the tradition of
> it in earlier times which we seem to have for France?
It seems to have developed later in Italy than in the north (despite a 6th- or 7th-
century painted roundel surviving from S. Vitale in Ravenna), and the mid-13th-
century glass in Assisi is some of the earliest to survive in Italy. There is quite a lot
from this time until the mid-16th century.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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