Sentences with phrase «techniques of stained glass»

The techniques of stained glass were introduced to England from France by Benedict Biscop, abbot of the monastery during the time of Bede, the famous early historian of England.

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At 18 he was apprenticed to a stained glass artisan and learned techniques in glass restoration, no doubt a booming business amid the wreckage of post-war Germany.

His overall images of nuns, bums, sailfish, and soldiers never seem as important as the jigsaw - puzzle or stained - glass - window configurations of pure color, built - up areas of silhouetted figures, airbrushed faces, and other techniques that send the eye racing around his surfaces, trying to take it all in.

There he studied under Walter Womacka (1925 - 2010), the teacher and artist noted for his numerous designs of stained glass art, using the gemmail technique, as well as outdoor murals made from mosaic.

Handcrafted using the same techniques that were developed by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the early 1900s, this beautiful Tiffany - styl... e piece contains hand - cut pieces of stained glass, each wrapped in fine copper foil.