Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia
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2002
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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 in the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Since 1997 more than 450 sites have been visited to document their windows by photographing them. This process has 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.
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