Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #54: Detail
The theme from Patti for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge this week #54 is Detail.
I appreciate painting and love colorful things. A good combination of both is stained glass windows. When traveled to Europe visiting the cathedrals, stained glass windows always caught my attention. Although I took photos in several cathedrals, I chose to display some to show the detail of the stained glass windows in Cologne Cathedral in Germany.
Stained Glass Windows
During the Gothic period and the Renaissance (1100s–1500s) stained glass was one of the foremost techniques of painting practiced in Europe. It inspired the lives of the faithful through religious narratives in churches and cloisters.
There was a time when glass panes were too expensive for most people, only in the late 1400s, did glass panels become wider-spread, so that middle class and wealthy people could have them in their homes—and they started setting into their clear glass windows that would celebrate their family histories.
Glass Windows in Cologne Cathedral
In many windows coats of arms help both to identify their patron and to date the glass windows in Cologne Cathedral.
Among the five original windows, the Three Kings is the oldest glass window in the cathedral, and the earliest preserved “Bible windows” in Germany.
A typological, classical of types, view of history is also worked out in more detail in the two “Bible windows” where scenes of Christ’s life are related to Old Testament events. These windows are the depiction of Christ’s ancestors as kings, the History of Salvation with themes representing the three periods of history. The prominence of the scene of the Adoration of the magi has been associated with the importance of Cologne Cathedral as the cathedral of the Three Kings.
I can only identify major detail in the stained glass windows shown in this post. An extensive study would be needed to understand and interpret the rest of the detail.
I hope you enjoyed these stained glass windows as much as I do!
LenArtists Photo Challenge #54 – Detail
The Showers of Blessings 
So beautiful, Miriam! Colourful details and I love stained glass – shed some tears over Notre Dame.
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I know, Ann-Christine. Even if they rebuild it, all the treasures are gone!
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They are – it is so sad.
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Yes, sorry to witness that.
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I’m personally fascinated by stained glass windows Miriam. Your photos captured them beautifully
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Thank you, Tina. I surprised myself of capturing the important ones especially didn’t do any study ahead of the trip.
I took more photos in this cathedral than other ones in Spain and UK.
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Beautiful stained glass photos, Miriam. I’m mesmerized by them also. Thanks for sharing these. ❤
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Thank you, Vashti. I didn’t know what treasure I had gotten until I got home and looked them up. ❤
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That happens to me too. I take so many pictures and when I go edit them at home I find some really good ones. 😉
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That says a lot about traveling. There’s no way of knowing, sometimes it’s after we get home to find out. ❤ ❤
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Wonderful Miriam!!!
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Thank you so much, Paulo!!
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The details are remarkable! Thank you, Miriam for the historical info of the Cologne Cathedral and the stained glass windows.
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Thank you, Amy. I’m glad I got some steady shots!
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Beautiful photos of the stained glass. Miriam. I enjoyed the information behind them. I love stained glass too and I’m captivated by the light playing through it. Thanks for this post:)
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Thank you so much, Denise. Yes, the light brightens the colors. I’m glad it was a sunny day of our visit! 🙂
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Beautiful!
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Thank you, Peter!
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Beautiful images, Miriam and glorious use of color!
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It was a sunny day when we visited. The light made the colors brighter!
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Wow, Miriam what beautiful art with stained glass and such a great history depicted as art.
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Thank you, Kamal. I’ve read the interpretation of other stained glass and was amazed of the story behind it.
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Yes must be and what awesome artist of their times. Welcome Miriam
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I know, Kamal. It always amaze me when I see the painting or pottery with so much detail art.
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Yes absolutely Miriam
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Yes, 🙂
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😊😊😊😊
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I love stained glass, we are lucky so much survives despite centuries of wars and all sorts of troubles.
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Yes, exactly, We don’t know how many windows didn’t survive and are glad some did. Thank you for your visit.
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Excellent photos. Thank you for sharing the history of stained glass window, I certainly learned something new today. Great post.
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Thank you very much, Bella. I looked up some of the information when doing this post. So I learned something also!
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😊 good bit of research
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Thank you. 🙂
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Wow, this is lovely Miriam!
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Thank you so much, I appreciate you reading and comment!
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I also love stained glass windows, Miriam. These are amazing, so vibrant and beautiful.
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Thank you, Robbie. I think the colors were amended at some point!
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Very nice shots of the stained glass windows at the cathedral! They were awesome to see in person! Looks like you had a wonderful trip.
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Thank you, Dwight. I took several photos and was surprised to have the “significant” ones. Probably the tour guide took us to the right spot. We are happy with this tour group so far from four trip. We may book another one for next year.
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I did the same thing. It happened that those were the windows catching the light.
By the way my Haikia book is up on Amaxon Kindle.
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Oh, great news, Dwight. I’ll check it out right now.
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Congratulations, Dwight. What did you use to format the book? I used Word first but had a hard time lined up the photos and pages, so I used Kindle Create, but the fonts are limited.
For Kindle, you could use color photos. It would be gorgeous to see your color photos in the book. It costs more to print paperback in color.
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I thought about that after the fact. But, it says on the ad that it is a big download already. If I changed to color, it would be a huge download. I do my own paperback printing!
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When I loaded my book they came back and questioned me on whether the photos were all mine or off the internet. I went back and put a statement of copywrite for all the photos.
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Yes, for my book, I stated photos by Miriam Hurdle and paintings by Miriam Hurdle, so they didn’t question me.
Did you use Word. doc?
My paperback is back and white and the cost is low. I bought 100 copies for the author’s price. It costs you nothing to upload the paperback version and Amazon readers have options to buy the paperback. I formatted my paperback to 6″x9″.
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Yes I use word for my writing and transfer to pdf when printing locally. pdf. gives a print that is not altered in any way. My printing goes half size. 5.5 x 8.5 I do the cover separately.
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Now I remember what you told me before. When I sent my book out for a review, I added the cover page and saved the book with the cover in pdf.
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Yes, that seems to work well!
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I did it for two reviews!
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Lovely…
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Thank you, Bette!
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