- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; 1st Edition edition (1 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701179929
- ISBN-13: 978-0701179922
- Product Dimensions: 16.1 x 2.5 x 22.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 339,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Times
`By concentrating her gaze upon one of the outstanding buildings of England, Hicks provides a history of an entire culture.'
Independent
'a jewel of a book ... a tribute to the mainly Flemish mastercraftsmen who designed and made the windows'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art
A fascinating and engrossing story of the making of the stained glass windows of King's College Chapel. Carola Hicks takes us into the medieval period vividly describing he lives of kings, churchmen and artisans during a period of violent religious and racial conflict. Read the book then take it with you to King's College Chapel and history comes alive.
A fascinating and engrossing story of the making of the stained glass windows of King's College Chapel. Carola Hicks takes us into the medieval period vividly describing he lives of kings, churchmen and artisans during a period of violent religious and racial conflict. Read the book then take it with you to King's College Chapel and history comes alive.
21 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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The newspaper reviewers have hailed this book as a marvel, but I can't help but think they were reading a different book.
Hicks provides a basic account of how stained glass is made, and then a reign-by-reign history of the stops and starts in the making of this superlative series of windows, with interesting mini-biographies of some of the major glass-painters. She does provide a sense of the milieu in which the glass was made, and of the politics behind their making - even if this is at times sketchy.
What the book lacks, though, is much account of the glass itself. Apart from the odd vignette you will get no sense of the story the windows are telling or the fascinating parallels between the Old and New Testament scenes that occur in pairs throughout. There isn't even so much as a list of the scenes' titles.
If you want to learn about the glass at King's, read something else (Hilary Wayment's history if you can find and afford it). If you are already familiar with the glass then this will tell you new things about their history. But as an introduction to the windows then, in the end, it fails to satisfy.
Hicks provides a basic account of how stained glass is made, and then a reign-by-reign history of the stops and starts in the making of this superlative series of windows, with interesting mini-biographies of some of the major glass-painters. She does provide a sense of the milieu in which the glass was made, and of the politics behind their making - even if this is at times sketchy.
What the book lacks, though, is much account of the glass itself. Apart from the odd vignette you will get no sense of the story the windows are telling or the fascinating parallels between the Old and New Testament scenes that occur in pairs throughout. There isn't even so much as a list of the scenes' titles.
If you want to learn about the glass at King's, read something else (Hilary Wayment's history if you can find and afford it). If you are already familiar with the glass then this will tell you new things about their history. But as an introduction to the windows then, in the end, it fails to satisfy.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book bridges the transition for the 'high medieval' to the 'protestant'. The way in which this transition is handled in art is fascinating. A masterful insight both into the craftsmen of the Tudor perio and a great building. the book makes me want to visit Kings again.
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