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Stained glass
Topic Started: Jul 31 2015, 08:01 PM (224 Views)
Roi Khosro Ier
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Hello there !

does anyone have some clues/links/websites/photos about the stained glasses in the churches, where the Hispanic Chant was sung ? Is there any tradition about it, or was it not as important as - for example - in the churches and cathedrals in France ?

Thanks a lot for your answers,

Raphaël
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Emma Hornby
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Hi Raphaël - I have no idea at all about this. I'll ask Kati if she has any ideas.
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Kati Ihnat
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Hi Raphaël,

So as far as I know, there's not much evidence for stained glass before the Romanesque period, and even less so in Spain - it seems to be mostly a northern thing. It appears the earliest examples in Spain are mid-twelfth century, which goes beyond the remit of the Old Hispanic rite (it was replaced by the Roman rite in 1080 except in some isolated parish churches in Toledo - none of which, to my knowledge, conserve much of their medieval architectural features and certainly contain no stained glass). So churches were probably painted inside (see this thread here about that), but likely not much stained glass; or if there was, we don't have any examples of it.

Hope this helps!
Edited by Kati Ihnat, Aug 5 2015, 09:24 AM.
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Raquel Rojo Carrillo
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Dear Raphaël,

Yes, as Kati says, it seems that the churches in which the Old Hispanic rite was practised were not decorated by stained glass. In fact, the main museums in Spain that have Visigothic objects in their collections make no mention to this type of technique. The first evidences for stained glass in Spain date from the twelfth or thirteenth century according to the National History of Spain Prize award winning book by Victor Nieto Alcaide, La vidriera española: Ocho siglos de luz (Editorial Nerea: 1998). Thus, it seems that this technique was employed in Spain only after the Old Hispanic liturgy was officially replaced by the Franco-Roman rite and its Gregorian chant (this replacement was decreed by the Council of Burgos of the year 1080). Although a few local parishes continued to practise the Old Hispanic rite up to the beginning of the fourteenth century, these were small and traditional churches that were unlikely to have had enough funds or even the intention to incorporate this type of innovative decoration in their buildings. Anyway, the link that Kati sent you has some information about other visual elements that decorated the churches in which the Old Hispanic chant was sung. It seems that these churches were lit with candles every evening at vespers, the service with which the liturgical day began; for instance, a chant genre called 'lucernarium' or 'vespertinus', and which normally employed the metaphors light-God and darkness-sin, was sung to open this service.

Best wishes!

Raquel
Edited by Raquel Rojo Carrillo, Aug 5 2015, 01:55 PM.
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Emma Hornby
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Thanks, team!!!
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