A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 77
OPAQUE LEADED WORK IN GLASS Gayet, the charm of this glass is singularly soft and subdued, the light seems to come from far away ; it is an effect which is in the highest sense artistic. Fig. 138 gives two diagrams, taken from Gayet's book, of windows in a Cairene mosque. … Fig. 138. Mosaic of colored glass set in plaster or marble frames : from a mosque at Cairo, now in the museum there (A. Gayet, " L'Art Arabe ") In beginning the discussion of European mosaic windows it may be well to speak, first, of an opaque mosaic which in very recent times has grown out of this…
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