Stained Glass in The Netherlands before 1795

Part 1 The North, Part 2 The South

Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman

Stained Glass in The Netherlands before 1795

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Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman

Distributed for Amsterdam University Press

784 pages | 380 color plates, 220 halftones | 9 1/2 x 12

Amsterdam University Press - Corpus Vitrearum the Netherlands

Cloth $250.00 ISBN: 9789069845180 Published February 2012 For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

The Netherlands is rightly famous for the stunning stained glass windows of the Sint Janskerk, an imposing Gothic church in Gouda, but many more examples of this fragile medium have withstood the ravages of time. This is the first book to provide a complete overview of the country’s extensive works of stained glass. In addition to showcasing the mainly post-medieval glass found in situ and dispersed glass, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman uses excavated material, designs, and donation documents to evoke windows that are now lost.

Catalogued province by province, the material is presented in the context of political and cultural developments and demonstrates the preeminence of Holland from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth century.

“This is a pioneering survey, which will long remain the indispensable point of reference for post-medieval glass-painting in the Netherlands.”—Tim Ayers, University of York