1/4 Britains Most Fragile Treasure

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First broadcast: Oct 2011.
Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries-old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous East Window at York Minster is the largest medieval stained-glass window in the country and it was the creative vision of a single artist, a mysterious master craftsman called John Thornton, one of the earliest named English artists.

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  • @monicacall7532
    @monicacall7532 Жыл бұрын

    I love any documentary that Janina Ramirez features in. She is so passionate about Medieval art and culture. Thanks for making this video available!

  • @Thirdfish
    @Thirdfish8 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful artwork.

  • @cornellwaters9089
    @cornellwaters90894 жыл бұрын

    🎨 Thank You!

  • @FishizleGames
    @FishizleGames8 жыл бұрын

    Refurbishment was complete September 2015, you can visit the Cathedral in York and see it now.

  • @sherlockholmeslives.1605
    @sherlockholmeslives.16057 жыл бұрын

    Lovely!

  • @unboxingpress
    @unboxingpress8 жыл бұрын

    stunning

  • @chrisdoeller7332
    @chrisdoeller73326 жыл бұрын

    Good video, except the wow factor could have been brought home to the viewer if the producers had used music of the cathedral and period of the glass. You Brits have a great church music tradition which continues today. Why not include it? Why use ersatz music? The video medium cannot provide us with the smells of the cathedral, but the audio is very possible. The choral works of Leonel Power, John Dunstaple, and Rbt. Fayrfax, to name a few should be heard not a the new age stuff which has been generated.

  • @unbroken1010

    @unbroken1010

    3 жыл бұрын

    Personally I would have used the Sex Pistols

  • @themadplotter

    @themadplotter

    Жыл бұрын

    Just anything to cover the cries of the choir boys really.

  • @monicacall7532

    @monicacall7532

    Жыл бұрын

    Chris, I completely agree. The first time that I visited Sainte Chapelle in Paris Plainchant and Medieval church music by Dufay and other composers was playing in the background. The stained glass windows absolutely blew my mind, but having the gorgeous church music of the Middle Ages also playing turned it into a spiritual cultural experience that is still beyond any words to describe.

  • @nkenchington6575
    @nkenchington65752 жыл бұрын

    i fucking love art

  • @williamdodds8777
    @williamdodds87777 жыл бұрын

    Why are the Ste Chapelle windows shown in part 1 not in Ste Chappelle? For what reason were they removed?

  • @scorpioninpink

    @scorpioninpink

    5 жыл бұрын

    Restoration.

  • @martynnotman3467

    @martynnotman3467

    2 жыл бұрын

    A lot of French churches were sacked by the French in the revolution. A lot of bits wound up overseas

  • @edgarbeat275
    @edgarbeat2754 жыл бұрын

    It's a great documentary but I wish the could have explains the makeup of the glass material itself and some of the techniques. How they got grades in the reds. Ground glass before acid etching, flint glass the make up recipe of the glass paints. How it was fired. I have info but I simply want to know more. Due to the lethal ingredients glass today is so much softer the nasty stuff less so. But its pretty bad even now. Old glass is much harder I fired glass from 1880 it's the background parts of the panel on my avitar profile photo. A test to see if it coped with high firings and age test. Hardly any distortion or shrinking. Grinding the edges took more effort. Yet Lambert glass the orange part is much softer. Flint high content glass I imagin would be very hard and could be fired to almost 1000 degrees give or take. Working down the temp scale from trace lining to silver stain. Modern example of firing temps. Tracing lines toning 620 to 670 degrees the longer it is held at temp it can be made glossy or brough up and down for a Matt finish. Being an oxcide it can be fired as high as my kiln will go highest I have fired 700 degrees. But with repeated firing at say 650 degrees I find the glass shrinks. I fire at the lowest range then do a final polish firing at the higher temp to reduce the shrinking issue. With modern softer glass. Enameling can vary per colour. 560 to 575 degrees Silver stain 520 to 540 degrees again the longer it is held the darker deeper the yellow goes to gold. Personal experimentation tests before a project noting firing temp and time held etc. So you know exactly how it will turn out. I would love to know how they fired flint glass in medieval times. I can say with certainty that the repair sections would have been made with modern glass (high quality of course) but not fired as it would have originally been. The very make up of the glass. Was it made with a high flint content? Medieval glass is biggest influence in the way I lead and paint. It frees me up rather relying on glass colour and lead. The Burrell Collection in Glasgow Houses some fine medieval stain glass. I can't wait to see. Glasgow responsible for the resurgence / renaissance of stain glass in the UK. Aged four I wanted to be a stain glass artist. I am 40% out of 100% where I want to be quality and skill wise. Everything I know is in my head not written down.

  • @unbroken1010
    @unbroken10103 жыл бұрын

    Correction glass is definitely not the most fragile substance in the world.

  • @ChrisOrillia
    @ChrisOrillia8 жыл бұрын

    She's quite bundled up

  • @Englishsea24
    @Englishsea247 жыл бұрын

    She is SO clever, and very pretty

  • @wawazuzzy2064
    @wawazuzzy20647 жыл бұрын

    get it

  • @unbroken1010
    @unbroken10103 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful but the entire history of whos world? this has been done before in Vedic the vast majority

  • @CitrusMike
    @CitrusMike3 жыл бұрын

    kool

  • @picassoboy52
    @picassoboy523 жыл бұрын

    She's gorgeous....

  • @unbroken1010

    @unbroken1010

    3 жыл бұрын

    You creepy 😜

  • @johnprice7507

    @johnprice7507

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@unbroken1010 The girl in the thumbnail is pretty banging to be fair

  • @xyzllii
    @xyzllii5 жыл бұрын

    Music drives me crazy. Stopped watching after 3 mins.

  • @unbroken1010

    @unbroken1010

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's probably because you're a little participation trophy nerd that can't concentrate more than 3 minutes

  • @budjitresvalles6397
    @budjitresvalles63977 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy this series. I hope the make-up team made the presenter Dr. Ramirez a little less Goth-looking 😆 and wardrobe less covered. While her appearance does not diminish the content and substance of the message, I got distracted by the eye-make up... Other than that, it's a great series. 👍🏻

  • @deependofshallow

    @deependofshallow

    6 жыл бұрын

    Budji Tresvalles and comb that stringy oily hair 😌

  • @carollake8957

    @carollake8957

    6 жыл бұрын

    and wash it!

  • @celtick4985

    @celtick4985

    6 жыл бұрын

    at least her appearance is nearer to medieval 😊

  • @gavinreid8351

    @gavinreid8351

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's her normal style.

  • @gretagreebling

    @gretagreebling

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, don't you just hate it when a woman puts you off by her appearance, and sabotages the whole topic?

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