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A study of Victorian stained glass in the south-west of England attempts to analyse who commissioned it, and their motives for doing so.(Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival)(Book Review)

From: Apollo  |  Date: 8/1/2005  |  Author: Kerney, Michael

Stained Glass and the Victorian Gothic Revival

Jim Cheshire

Manchester University Press, 49.99 [pounds sterling]

ISBN 0 7190 6346 9

Few arts have suffered greater reversals in esteem than Victorian stained glass. Although the work of William Morris and his associates never quite fell from favour, by the interwar period the great bulk of Victorian glass was dismissed by ecclesiastics and historians alike as artistically worthless, and its removal actively encouraged ...

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