Excerpt from Ancient Painted Glass in England, 1170-1500 Ad. 709. St. Wilfrid glazes York Minster, which he also whitewashes and decorates. Anyone who has devoted attention to the ancient enamelled works of the Rhenish school must have been struck by the marked simi larity of design and treatment which they present to the earlier examples of painted glass, angularity of figure and stiffness of drapery being common to both. A comparison of primitive painted glass with the early enamels, must, I think, make it apparent, how close is the resemblance between the two, the enamel of the one being transmuted into glass, whilst the brass intersections have be come changed into leads. The art of enamelling seems to have been introduced into Western Europe, ad. 972, at the time of the marriage of the Emperor, Otho II, with the Princess Theophania, who is recorded to have brought workers in enamel from Byzantium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.