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318 PAINTED GLASS WINDOWS EXECUTED BY
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Having Church - Windows Seen In The Were...
_cipal part of the work is done by the artists , under direction of tlie ladies
After . we had visited each , department , and tad seen beautiful imitations of twelfththirteenthand fifteenth century art in
various stages , we could , not _biit express , freely our opinion that the sisters would do much better to follow their own ideasand those
of mediaeval French artthan to consult German taste . , We saw the chapelof which the , windows exhibited the first efforts of the
effect sisters of in these g , lass is painting infinitel , y and more were beautiful confirmed than in that our of belief anything that the we white is and
saw in the ateliers . The color is richer , less employed , the sunshine is mellowed into a dim delicious light . I will not say
that we had never seen anything so good , for in many of our cathedrals there are single windows of much greater beauty and been
merit produced ; but , more certainl nearl y y so approaching excellent can remember a general that . of The effect ancient onl has art fault rarel than seemed y any stained lass windows we y
to us to g lie in a too constant juxtaposition of ruby and "blue—a want is felt of more and yellow .
We would addthat green in this establishment the windows are not onlpaintedbut , entirely finished , packed , and despatched to
various y parts , of the world . It will interest English readers to hear that two out of the thirty sisters at Nantes are our countryis
womenand that the Mere Superieure of the convent of Mans an Eng The lish , Carmelites woman also of . Mans have carried on this art manufactory
from undertakings for seven the year may s with be e increasing formed above mentioned from success the following , . evidentl Some y extr idea written acts of , their translated for great them programm
by a modest " some During affectionate chapel the years for and the 1851 worshi friendl and p y 1852 of hand God , the : — . Carmelites This building of Mans cost raised them work hardlleted
much care and many sacrifices . The was y comp , necessity and and what alread then y they all insp had their ired accomp them little with lished savings pious did were daring not more satisf . Hel than y ped them exhausted by . certain Their ;
ador good nment councils of , the and house burning of God with the desire nuns to themselve do something s undertook for the to
paint the glass windows , which , were to be the chief and almost " G the onl _G-o y & decoration blessed their of zeal the chapel for their . success was much greater than ;
could have been anticipated , and these humble and timid women , who without had an only idea thoug of ht to thin work g beyond under the their eye grating of their -found Divine that Master they ,
had created something any worthy the attention of the world , . Spectators admired these fisthese attitudesthese sacred scenes replete
with modest simp gure licity , , where nothin , g forced or exaggerated , could be Doubtlessthe
nothing pretentious or worldly , seen . , exe-
318 Painted Glass Windows Executed By
318 PAINTED GLASS WINDOWS EXECUTED BY
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/30/
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