The Illuminated Window

"""Rather than present an encyclopedic look at stained glass through the ages, [Raguin] focuses on examples from churches to universities and domestic settings, and from Gothic designs, through the Renaissance, to the work of contemporary artists . . . The chapters themselves are as varied as their subjects.""-- ""The Irish Times"" ""Raguin's insightful analysis sheds much-needed light on the creation of site-specific decorative work in glass from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. She highlights the often-overlooked relationships between stained glass and other media, including illuminated manuscripts, oil paintings, illustrated books, and prints, a range of resources yielding a complex development process that transcended national borders.""--Jennifer Tonkovich, Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York ""A delight for the eye and the mind. Through gorgeous color photographs and vivid analysis, Raguin demonstrates the importance of stained glass as art, as narrative, and as a feature of ambitious sacred and secular buildings from the Middle Ages to the present.--Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles ""Renowned scholar Raguin brings the insights of her long career in stained glass studies to bear on a fascinating selection of iconic case studies. She applies the rigor and erudition honed over many decades in the service of the Corpus Vitrearum to a range of glazing schemes spanning from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries. The book demonstrates admirably that stained-glass programs of all periods and contexts can yield up their secrets to expert art historical inquiry.""--Sarah Brown, University of York"