Stained glass reading list
The following books are available in the National Art Library at the V&A:
Archer, Michael, An Introduction to English Stained Glass, London, 1985
Ayre, Kerry, Medieval English Figurative Roundels, CVMA Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 6, Oxford, 2002
Brown, Sarah, Stained Glass: An Illustrated History, London, 1992
Brown, Sarah and O'Connor, David, Medieval Craftsmen: Glass-Painters, London, 1991
Brisac, Catherine, A Thousand Years of Stained Glass, London, 1986
Butts, Barbara and Hendrix, Lee, et al., Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Durer and Holbein, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, exhibition catalogue, 2000
Clarke, Brian, ed., Architectural Stained Glass, London, 1979
Harrison, Martin, Victorian Stained Glass, London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980
Lee, Lawrence, The Appreciation of Stained Glass, Oxford, 1977
Marks, Richard, Stained Glass in England during the Middle Ages, London, 1993
Piper, John, Stained Glass: Art or Anti-Art, London, 1968
Rackham, Bernard, A Guide to the Collections of Stained Glass, London, 1936
Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, The History of Stained Glass, Thames & Hudson, 2003
Reyntiens, Patrick, The Technique of Stained Glass, London, 1977
Täube, Dagmar, Rheinische Glasmalerei. Meisterwerke der Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Regensberg, 2007
Williamson, P, Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A, 2003
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Medieval and Renaissance Stained Glass in the Victoria and Albert Museum (HB)

The stained glass collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum is the largest in the world, making it possible to chart the development of the art in …
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Tue 21 May 2013 11:00

Reino Liefkes, Senior Curator of the Ceramics & Glass Collection, will lead a tour of the Glass Gallery, illustrating the development of glass from a rare and precious material to a commodity available to all, and from an ideal material for utilitarian objects to an exciting medium for contemporary artists.
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