stained glass in ireland - english matters · stained glass imported from england and germany •...

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

Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Design for Trellis Wallpaper, William Morris, 1862

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!