Stained Glass in Ireland
By Coral - Daphne – Sofie – Uta Participant teachers in English Matters’ Programme Dublin, Ireland
What?
• art form • coloured glass • mosaic stained glass art can be: • Classic • Modern • Smooth • Painted • Rough • …
A little bit of history…
• Real origins of stained glass are lost • Egyptians and the Romans • 7th century churches and monasteries in Britain • Medieval times: western churches & mosques • 19th-20th century: revival
Stained Glass in Ireland
St Theresa’s, Dublin
National Library, Dublin (Harry Clarke) Bewley’s Café, (Harry Clarke) Grafton Str., Dublin The An Túr Gloine ("Tower of Glass") cooperative studio • 1901 throughout the first half of the 20th century. • artists included Michael Healy, Evie Hone, Beatrice Elvery, Wilhelmina Geddes and founder Sarah Purser. • hoped to provide an alternative to the commercial stained glass imported from England and Germany • "perhaps the most noteworthy example of the newly- awakened desire to foster Irish genius" • Influences: Arts and Crafts Movement, Irish revivalism and the artistic tradition of Celtic manuscript illumination.
Influences
Design for Trellis Wallpaper, William Morris, 1862
Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
• studied at Belvedere College and the Dublin Metropolitan School of art. • commissions even outside Ireland (Australia, US) • also an illustrator • fine detail of his drawing use of rich colours (especially deep blues) an innovative integration of the window leading • influenced by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements the French Symbolist movement the Arts and Crafts movement and the Pre-Raphaelites in Britain the revival of the Celtic tradition Medieval as well as Gothic art
Clarke’s Famous Works The Geneva Window St. Agnes’ Window (Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin) Gerry O’Brien Past & Present
The Church pub, Dublin The Stag’s Head pub, Dublin The future?
Ciara Cuddihy How to do it? Tools Cutting the glass Lead Adding the lead into the puzzle The result And now it’s up to you!