Radiance and Symbolism in Modern Stained Glass: European and American Innovations and Aesthetic Interrelations in Material Culture
This book focuses on the aesthetic, symbolic, and cultural concepts of radiance and beauty in stained glass in modern art; global exchanges between stained-glass artists in Europe and the Americas; and the transformation of stained glass from religious decoration to secular material culture. Unique features of the book include its geographic breadth, encompassing England, France, Italy, USA, and Mexico, and its inclusion of American female glassmakers. Essays consider how stained glass became an art form during this time, and show how the narrative for the figurative design drew from the Bible, mythology, history, literature, and the symbolism of the time, including popular culture such as ecology and materiality. Written for students and the general public interested in the humanities, literature, history, art history, and new media and popular culture, this book examines the visual beauty and symbolism of stained-glass windows in Europe and American cultures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – the modern era.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, PhD, is presently a Visiting Scholar in Art History at the Università di Aldo Moro in Bari, Italy, and Investigadora de Historia de Arte, SIELAE, Universidad de Coruña, Spain. She is an Emerita Professor of Art History, Chairperson of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her BS and BA degrees in Psychology and Philosophy and her MA in History of Art and Aesthetics from the University of Miami, and her PhD in Italian Renaissance and Baroque from Boston University. Cheney is a Renaissance, Mannerism, and Pre-Raphaelite scholar, and has authored and co-authored numerous articles and books, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler Papers; James Abbott McNeill Whistler and His Birthplace; Botticelli’s Neoplatonic Images; Readings in Italian Mannerism; The Homes of Giorgio Vasari (English and Italian); Self-Portraits of Women Painter; Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; Giuseppe Arcimboldo: The Magic Paintings (English, French and German); Giorgio Vasari’s Artistic and Emblematic Manifestations; Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces: Art and Theory; Agnolo Bronzino: The Florentine Muse, and Edward Burne-Jones’ Mythical Paintings, among others. Her forthcoming books include Readings in Italian Mannerism II: Architecture and Sculpture and Giorgio Vasari’s Personifications of Virtues: An Iconology of Beauty and Wisdom.
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