THE KING'S GLASS: A STORY OF TUDOR POWER AND SECRET ART
Written by Carola Hicks
Published by Chatto & Windus
in 2007
ISBN: 9780701179922
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THE KING'S GLASS: A STORY OF TUDOR POWER AND SECRET ART
Written by Carola Hicks.
Stock no. 1830942
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Each year more than 250,000 people visit the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, one of Europe's best known buildings. This book tells the untold story of the Chapel's crowning glory, its stained glass windows, and of the people who created them - the triumphant culmination of a project completed despite wars, the death of kings and violent religious conflict. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine.Colour & b/w plates. ix and 246 pages including index. ISBN: 9780701179922. Fifth impression. Boards clean. Small mark to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 The Warring Kings
- 2 'My Beloved Mother'
- 3 A Royal Visit
- 4 'Your Blessed Uncle'
- 5 The Glaziers' Craft
- 6 'Rainbow Round the Throne'
- 7 Beasts and Badges
- 8 Southwark and its aliens
- 9 The King's Glazier
- 10 'Unperfected and Unfinished'
- 11 The First Phase
- 12 'Cunning in the Art of Glazing'
- 13 The Evil May Day
- 14 Cloth of Gold
- 15 Galyon Home, King's Glazier
- 16 Wolsey to the Rescue
- 17 'Surely, Cleanly, Workmanly'
- 18 Glaziers at War
- 19 The King's Great Matter
- 20 The Old Law and the New
- 21 the Hand of Fox
- 22 Dissolution
- 23 Wives and Windows
- 24 Continuing Hostilites
- 25 The King is Dead
- 26 Englightenment
- Finale
- Notes
- Index