On this date in 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany was born. He was an American designer internationally recognized as one of the greatest proponents of Art Nouveau, particularly in the art of glassmaking.
100 years after being hung at a Rhode Island church, a stunning Tiffany stained-glass window can now be admired by visitors at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). It is now known as the Hartwell Memorial Window.
From Encyclopedia Britannica:
Tiffany’s experiments with stained glass, begun in 1875, led to the establishment three years later of his own glassmaking factory at Corona in Queens, New York. By the 1890s he was a leading glass producer, experimenting with unique means of colouring.
He became internationally famous for the glass that he named Favrile, a neologism from the Latin faber (“craftsman”). Favrile glass, iridescent and freely shaped, was sometimes combined with bronzelike alloys and other metals; such examples, some signed “L.C. Tiffany” or “L.C.T.,” enjoyed widespread popularity from 1890 to 1915 and were revived again in the 1960s. His Favrile glass was admired abroad, especially in central Europe, where it created a new fashion.
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Thank you, Stella, for the beautiful items of Tiffany glass.
Stellars, have a blessed Saturday with Tiffany around the world….
Hartford, Connecticut….
Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, “Angel of the Resurrection Window” c. 1894, First Church of Christ, Hartford, founded in 1636. photo: Greg Shea
Jersey City, New Jersey…
“Poppies and Passion Flowers Rapelye Memorial Window,” circa 1915, designed by Agnes Northrop of Tiffany Studios for St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jersey City.
St. Andrews Church, Kimbolton, England…
This is the only church Tiffany stained glass window in England. It commemorates the twin daughters of the 8th Duke and Consuelo Yznaga.
The American Church, Paris, France…
One of two Tiffany glass windows at the church. They are the only church windows done by Tiffany in all of France.
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My mother & I went to an exhibition in San Francisco in 1981, & also saw the extensive collection at the Winchester House in San Jose.
The exhibit told that his work fell out of favor for years and his home in NY was abandoned with the installed windows left to the elements. Unimaginable.
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Hi, Czarina! That’s terrific you were able to see the exhibition and the Winchester collection. It’s totally admirable for folks to take care of such beautiful and valuable items as Tiffany glass. I can’t imagine anyone just letting it deteriorate. Amazing!
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A short video from the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Chattanooga. I was married in this church in 1976.
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Thanks, Menagerie! How beautiful to go there and meditate on the call of Jesus on our lives.
Do you have wedding photos posed in front of the glass?
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No, the windows are high on the wall, bottoms of them are at least 6’ up, if not more. They are huge windows on very high walls.
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So beautiful.
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All just amazing.
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Mornin’ y’all!
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Mornin’, Miss Wee. That’s pretty much a true fact, there. But it could still get ya’z the ban-hammer on teh FB! Coffee’s on the way.
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Mornin’ T!
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Good afternoon, Wee! Oh, yeah, he’s comparable to George Washington.
If he’s been working for so many decades, why is it that no one can list off the top of the head what his positive accomplishments are? Negative we got a load of.
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Mornin’, kids! Coffee’s up. Grab a cup!
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Gracias T!
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I see frequent weather updates here, and I got up early enough to hear the local weather sppokes-gal this morning. It’s 37* right now in the HOU and M-F all next week we’re gonna have highs in the 80’s. I’m asking for some anti-psychotic meds for whoever is in charge of this whole thing. Not sure if it’s Greta, algore, or Lurch Kerry, but they’re tryn’a keel us all in a week or two! 😀 😀 😀
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Add another derail of the train type and yer week’ll be perfect!
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Miss Wee……….we already had ours. Just on the other side of town!
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-train-derailment-occurs-just-days-after-ohio-disaster-1780974
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Aw hell – guess it’s my turn since you and Stella both have had yours…
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It was 29 here this morning and will be 77 on Thursday. They say. Thanks for the coffee T!
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You’re welcome, Menage.
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Something got hung up in teh spam folder.
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The “Oldest Law Enforcement Officer in the World” passes away at 99. In Texas, of course! Plenty of men could outrun him, but not the silver bullet! 😉
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/oldest-law-enforcement-officer-in-the-world-johnson-county-deputy-bill-hardin-dies/ar-AA17CNDe?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=62bdaf08940d41a197d4bc1cff546665
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Good day, Texan! No doubt at all that Bill Hardin was a character. R.I.P.
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Afternoon, All. 34* here and overcast. It snowed lightly last night so there is just a fresh sprinkle on the ground. Actually it is snowing now, but, just like a flake at a time, though. It is hard to tell unless you are actually out in it. Loki doesn’t care.
Hope you all are having good weather and staying well.
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Started out 39* here in Charlottesville, VA, now up to low 50’s and relentlessly sunny. Warm in the sun out of the wind. Prediction is to be 80* by Thursday.
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44 and overcast in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
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Greetings from east Oregon high desert, neighbor. Not quite so warm here: just got to 31 at Noon! 🙂
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I would enjoy looking out my window at the Oregon high desert….yup.
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Good afternoon, aus! 39 degrees in my area of the north Panhandle today which will inch up to a high of 40. Snow, slush, rain predicted for tomorrow and off and on after for the foreseeable future. I keep dreaming of warmer climes…it’s 78 in Honolulu right now…sigh!
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https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/switzerland-about-become-first-country-outlaw-cashless-society
It seems like Switzerland often has their ears on and take note of stuff.
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