Stained Glass
ステンドグラス / medieval–present / Technique / Architectural Ornament
Divides light with colored glass and lead lines, making contour itself structure and story.
Lead contours / Transmitted color / Geometric division / Jewel tones
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Symbolic images with light in the leading role · Organizing complex narrative into panels
- Type
- Concise letters that hold against the contours
- Composition
- Divide color fields with lead lines around a central figure
- Material
- Deep red, blue, gold, transmitted light, black joints
- Caution
- Not just translucent gradients. Design the structural lines that carry the color fields.
- Further study
- medieval glazing / lead came