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- Title
The State of Stained Glass in 19th-Century Italy: Ulisse De Matteis and the vitrail archéologique.
- Authors
Thompson, Nancy
- Abstract
This article explores the place of Ulisse De Matteis (Florence, 1 827?-1910) in the revival of stained glass in 19th-century Italy. Beginning in the 1820s, when the Bertini family established a stained glass atelier in Milan, restoration projects all over central and northern Italy created a need for stained glass carried out in revival styles. Before De Matteis, however, no Italian stained glass artist created windows that the French artist and critic Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806-1867) would have defined as vitrail archéologique, a stained glass window made in the manner of, and resulting from an archeological study of, medieval windows. Instead, Italian stained glass artists made windows from large panes of colorless glass painted with many colors of enamel pigments. De Matteis moved away from the approach of his compatriots to create stained glass windows that embody Didron's principle of the vitrail archeologique. This archeological revival of medieval stained glass took place in Florence, the capital of Tuscany, where, in the 1850s and 1860s, the idea of the medioevo, then defined as the period between the 14th and early 16th centuries, was an important part of Italian nationalism and central to Florence's sense of its political and artistic importance.
- Subjects
MILAN (Italy); ITALY; GLASS painting &; staining; 19TH century arts &; architecture; ARCHAEOLOGY &; art; ENAMELED glass; NATIONALISM; DE Matteis, Ulisse; GLASS artists
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2010, Vol 52, p217
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article