Ornate Leaded Lights - Window
by Colleen Kammerer
Title
Ornate Leaded Lights - Window
Artist
Colleen Kammerer
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Ornate Leaded Window | Fine Art photograph by Colleen Kammerer ~
Leadlights of Princeton University's McCosh Hall. The Hall was designed by Raleigh Gildersleeve in the Tudor Gothic style of architecture then dominant at Princeton. McCosh Hall was built as a memorial to Princeton's 11th president, has served for over 100 years as the home to academic departments, countless classes and notable lecturers.
Leadlights or leaded lights are decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in lead cames. The work of the leadlighter was essentially to provide windows that excluded the weather, but admitted light into buildings. Leadlight has been in use for over a thousand years, having its origins in the Roman and Byzantine windows that were made of thin sheets of alabaster set in armatures of wood or wrought iron. With the employment of small pieces of glass as the translucent material (rather than alabaster), lead "cames" were used to hold the glass in place.
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July 20th, 2014
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