Title: Let It Shine!

Background: Glass has been used as decoration for thousands of years, starting in about the Bronze Age. Quickly, early artisans learned how to color glass by adding various minerals to it. The beauty and craftsmanship of stained glass reached a highpoint during the Middle Ages, as seen in the large, complicated, detailed windows in European Gothic cathedrals.

Process: Mark a page into three small drawing spaces. Look at the selected images and answer the questions with text or images as required. Note the titles and dates of the art works.

Questions:
1. How is glass made?
2. When was the Bronze Age?
3. When were the Middle Ages?
4. Sketch a map of Western Europe and mark on it the locations mentioned in the following questions.
5. a) ( p 5) What geometric shapes make up the most basic elements of this double rose pattern in the
        Rheims Cathedral?
    b) What color would result if the colors from these windows were focused to a single point?
    c) Such a blending of colors would be controlled by what process?
    d) Draw and color the appropriate color wheel describing such a blending of color.
6. a) ( p 8) The Triumphant Return of David, ?. Name the dominant color of this window in the
        Chateau at Ecown, France.
    b) Is this a pure color?
7. a) By what process does the white light shining through stained glass become colored?
    b) How does the process work?
8. ( p 23) The Jesse Tree, c. 1140. Name the spectral, i.e., rainbow, colors seen in this section of
    a window in the Abby of Saint Denis, Paris.
9. ( p 70) Allegory of Christ as Savior, with the Fall of Manna Above, 1612 - 1622. Make
    a sketch of this window from St. Etienne du Mont, Paris, showing the location of the color
    with the longest wavelength.
10. a) ( p 76) Roses and Moutettes, Jacques Gruber, 1904. Name the color of the sky in this
          window from the Weissen Home, in Nancy, France.
      b) The sky would be what color if viewed through a green filter?
11. a) ( p 81) Beardless King, William Morris, 1860. In this panel from the Victoria and Albert
         Museum, London, name the color of the figure's sleeves.
      b) What would be their color if viewed through a red filter?
      c) Color in the location of the sleeve's color in the additive color wheels.
12. a) ( p 82) Sculpture, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., 1863. Name the primary-ish colors
          you see in this craft work.
      b) Make a sketch showing the locations of the primary-ish colors you see.
      c) Color in the locations of these primary-ish colors in the additive color wheels.
      d) Name the color of the lady's sleeves.
      e) White light would result if light from the lady's sleeves were blended with light of what other
          color?
13. ( p 84) The Call of St. Peter, James Powell & Sons, c. 1860. Make a sketch of this panel
      from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, showing the location of the color with the shortest
      wavelength.