Interesting places in Saint-Petersburg: Glass paintings or the play of light

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If during Your visit is a few hours to spare, You can visit some interesting places in St. Petersburg associated with one curious kind of art - to create stained glass. This craft in the old days was very popular among St. Petersburg artists, and even now, in St. Petersburg there are several schools that create real masterpieces like monuments, and custom.

Now stained glass art by a few revives, including St. Petersburg. New technologies allow in the shortest time to create something that used to have old masters required a lot of time and effort. Special attention is now paid artists to create stained glass patterns for interior decoration of home or office, as well as to design a cafe or restaurant. Stained glass is no longer associated with a style in architecture, and became as in the beginning of XX century fashion. Particularly popular stained glass received when placing the doors in the premises, and in some cases the bathrooms as a barrier for the soul.

Stained glass art has grown from a simple ornamental illustration to the story of highly artistic paintings of the highest skill. For all those wishing to get acquainted with the work of contemporary artists can be free to visit the exhibition "St. Petersburg stained glass", which takes place in the court of the stable housing Yelagin Palace on Yelagin island's Central Park of culture and rest them. S. M. Kirov (Gorky Park. S. M. Kirova) until 17 February 2014. The exhibition presents the work of modern stained glass artists of the school of Saint-Petersburg such higher educational institutions as an art-industrial Academy. A. L. Stieglitz Academy Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture. I. E. Repin. Please note, if You want to visit this exhibition, on Saturdays and Sundays and public holidays the entrance to Gorky Park. S. M. Kirov may be applicable.

Official website: http://www.elaginpark.spb.ru

Information link to the exhibition: http://elaginpark.spb.ru/art/exhibitions/vitragi_2013

Help telephone 430-09-11 (stable building).

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Interesting places in St. Petersburg: Glass pattern or play of light Interesting places in St. Petersburg: Glass pattern or play of light
Interesting places in St. Petersburg: Glass pattern or play of light Interesting places in St. Petersburg: Glass pattern or play of light

a Few words from the history: there is Nothing that delights the eye like stained glass art. Originated in the early middle ages, it mainly served to create a sense of celebration for the believers and the grandeur of religious buildings of that time. Interesting fact that for the manufacture of colored glass were used in various metals, including gold and silver. They allow you to give the glass the crimson and gold color, respectively.

Romanesque stained-glass Windows decorated the castles of the Western feudal lords and the monks of the temple-fortress of his monasteries. Stained glass art is beginning to develop rapidly in Western Europe in the XI century, and its heyday lasted all the ages is already with the dominance of the Gothic style in architecture. Stained glass Windows are found mainly in the Catholic and Lutheran churches were also common they are in the Orthodox churches of Byzantium. One of the hypotheses of the origin of the word stained glass window comes from the Latin. Vitrum - glass, although there is the hypothesis of a French origin from the French. Vitre – glass window. With the death of the Byzantine Empire in the XV century under the blows of the Muslims, the art of stained glass in the Eastern regions of Europe is losing momentum. That, however, does not affect its development in the West, in France, Germany, Denmark, Italy and Spain. The special distribution received stained glass in France, where the art of stained glass reached its peak in the middle ages. We should not think that in Eastern Europe not stained at all. This is not so. In Lithuania, they were also common in Catholic churches. On the territory of Russia in the stained glass Windows were common in wealthy homes. In the XV century and appear monochrome stained glass, grisaille. In the Renaissance the art of stained glass in Europe is in decline.

a New round of revitalization and development is happening only in the XIX century with the emergence of a new style in architecture, such as the new Gothic style (Gothic). Architectural fashion had affected then of the Russian Empire. Many houses in Petersburg, then there were the stained glass Windows. Not spared the then fashion and St. Isaac's Cathedral, where in its interior there is a stained glass window of the "Resurrected Christ", although the building itself and built in the neoclassical style and the availability of stained glass is not typical for an Orthodox Church.

unfortunately, not preserved the gorgeous stained glass Windows of Eliseevsky shop. Were crumbs, which is still possible now to observe. During the World wars and in the era of revolutionary upheaval of stained glass art again in decline. The beginning of the revival is at the beginning of 60-s years of XX-th century. Then there is a new to stained glass work. Minimal architecture of the USSR was due to many reasons, the main of which was technological. The introduction of monolithic reinforced concrete frames have minimized aesthetic expression in architecture. However, artistic expression in this period appeared a new form of stained glass, consisting of thick broken pieces of glass joined together by cement. The stained glass Windows appear then in the subway stations (metro station "Nevsky prospect"), in the houses of culture and even in research institutes. In 90-e years again decline.

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