Gothic stained glass windows contain images of characters, symbols and stories from the Old and New Testaments. The protagonist of this video is light and all the beauty it can create through glass.
Hugh of St. Victor and Thomas Aquinas state that light is one of the main attributes of beauty, and in texts by other leading scholastics, from St. Bonaventure to Albert the Great, it is said to be an attribute of God himself.
Gothic stained glass windows are effective instruments of communication through images. One of their peculiar privileges is that of being luminous paintings and of being able to avail themselves of countless possibilities given by a continuously variable element that takes on very different aspects depending on the hours, the days, and even the seasons.
The art of producing stained glass with the correct methodology and material disappeared as early as the 14th century.
0:34 Light in Theology
0:59 The Aesthetics of Light
1:24 Colours
1:42 Greco-Roman Temple
2:13 Light Painting
2:38 The Glass Pauperum Bible
3:11 The Functions of the Gothic Stained Glass Window
4:03 The First Treatise on Gothic Stained Glass Windows
4:43 The Study of Gothic Stained Glass Windows
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