Stained glass in Catholic Philadelphia

Resource Information

The work Stained glass in Catholic Philadelphia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bryn Athyn College, Swedenborg Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Stained glass in Catholic Philadelphia

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jean M. Farnsworth, Carmen R. Croce, Joseph F. Chorpenning ; photography by Laird Bindrim

Contributor

• Farnsworth, Jean M
• Chorpenning, Joseph F
• Croce, Carmen R

Subject

• Glass painting and staining -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia
• Catholic Church -- In art
• Church decoration and ornament -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia

Genre

• In art

Language

eng

Summary

"Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia tells the remarkable story of the thousands of stained-glass windows - made in America, England, France, and Germany - in the more than 400 churches, chapels, and institutions of the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Since 1997 more than 450 sites have been visited to document the archdiocese's windows by photographing them. This process resulted in the creation of a photo archive of over 50,000 images. Using this archive as a foundation, a team of scholars - from a variety of institutions and with specialties in medieval studies, architectural and social history, Christian iconography, decorative and liturgical arts, the craft, creative reuse, and historic preservation of stained glass - was assembled to study these windows. The result is this profusely illustrated book of original research that makes accessible a significant and highly visible, but neglected, aspect of our ecclesial, national, and regional cultural heritage."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

NK5312

LC item number

.S73 2002 Oversize

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography