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Christmas 2014: Nativity – Stained Glass Windows of Romanticism Issue number
575
Date of issue
14.11.2014
Face value
0.45 €
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0.45 €

The phenomenon of historicizing glass paintings, from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century, earned their recognition in Slovakia only lately. (Ilona Cónová a kol. Vitráže na Slovensku. Bratislava 2006). The glass paintings followed the Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Classical style basically from the second half of the nineteenth century until the inter-war period.  They represented not only examples of professional craftsmanship (lots of companies specialised in this field had already existed in surrounding countries, especially in Austria and Bohemia during this period), since their manually painted details and rendering of figures and their incarnate (faces, hands, etc.) exceed a period standard...

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