Glaziers_5

Phase 5

The decades either side of 1500 saw an extraordinary flowering of stained glass production with the return to prosperity of cities like Amiens after the Hundred Years War and the struggle with the Burgundians.  Families of glaziers thrived in cities like Troyes, Beauvais and, perhaps, Amiens.  The austerity of grisaille was abandoned in favor of brilliantly-colored and delicately-painted glass where some effects of modeling and space might be introduced.  At Amiens this final magnificent phase of stained glass production has left us two rose windows.  The

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