Storied windows : a traveller's introduction to the study of old church glass, from the twelfth century to the Renaissance, especially in France
Storied Windows is a 1914 New York guide by Arthur J. de Havilland Bushnell, written for travellers in France and aimed at readers wanting to study medieval and Renaissance church glass. Its plates are black-and-white photographs of stained glass panels, several of them shot against dark backgrounds that flatten the leading and figures into stark patterns. A designer could take from them the strong contrast between dense lead lines and pale glass, and the way narrative panels are framed in repeating architectural bays.
