M. A. Gessert Libri

This comprehensive guide to the art of glass staining provides detailed instructions for preparing pigments and fluxes, laying them on glass, and firing or burning in the colors. A must-have for anyone interested in the craft of glass painting.

Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise on the Art of Painting on Glass or Glass-StainingThis easily intelligible, but not on that account the less reprehensible egotism, Â this avarice for artistical monopoly, also operates in some measure to damp the speculative ardour of the present day, and constitutes, in fact, the primitive cause of the evil of which we complain. On the other hand, the most conducive element towards the full and free development of power generally, and particularly of artistical talent, is competition. It multiplies production, invites public judgment and comparison, and calls forth a laudable emulation, tending, in return, not only to promote the excellence of the works produced, but, by aiming at popularity, also to create an ever new demand for their increase and multi plication.