Medieval Masterpieces Stained Glass window worksheet · In medieval documents and artwork, a...
Transcript of Medieval Masterpieces Stained Glass window worksheet · In medieval documents and artwork, a...
In medieval times, and for many
centuries after, lots of people
weren't able to read. Instead, places
like churches would use art - like
stained glass windows, or songs - for
storytelling and teaching.
HISTORY AT HOME :
What story would you like to tell? What people, places, orthings would you want to hang up on your wall?
In medieval documents and artwork, adevotional portrait of someone - oftena saint - is called an imago. A narrative image is instead called anistoria - a word which comes from thesame route as "story" and "history"!
MEDIEVAL
MASTERPIECES
SPECTACULAR
STAINED GLASS !
Did you know?
You cou
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includ
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rainbow
...
Or even a unicorn!
Here are some stained glass windows you can find in St Giles'
Cathedral. The windows are from different times - one was
added in 1985, one was added in the 1880s, and one was
made in the twentieth century using - partially - old
window glass fragments from many centuries before.
Most of the original, medieval windowsin St Giles' Cathedral were smashedapart in the 1500s, during theReformation. The church had become Protestant, and people wanted to get rid of what they saw as a Cathoic art style. The stained glass you see today is mostly from the Victorian era, put up in the 1880s.
Did you know?
See if you can find all the words in
the wordsearch.
Can you guess which is which?
Answer: Left (oldest, recycled medieval glass), Middle (modern, 1985) and right (Victorian)
Did you know?
Historic stained glass artists used paint
brushes made up of fur from different
animals - even badgers!
Get Crafty!
1. Gather together some colourful pieces ofrecycling.
2. Draw a simple picture with big spaces, ofsomething you would love to have up on yourwall! This could be a pet, flower, your home, oranything at all!
3. Cut apart the recycling into lots of smallpieces, no smaller than about 1cm wide each. 4. Sort the pieces out by colour. 5. Spread glue all over the page, arranging thecut pieces of cardboard/plastic or whatever elseyou've used onto your picture. Use the differentcolours to fill in your earlier drawing!
HISTORY AT HOME :
Try making your very own crafty "stained glass" window today! In this activity pack you'll find not 1 but 2 different ideas for making yourvery own D.I.Y. stained glass winows, using simple supplies you can(hopefully!) find at home!
Here are some ideas of whatyou could use!
D.I.Y. Stained Glass Windows
Idea 1 - Recycled Mosaic 1 x our window
template
Lots x colourful
pieces of
recycling!
Strong glue
MEDIEVAL
MASTERPIECES
Small plastic toysUsed wrapping papercolourful cereal boxesbottle caps
Get Crafty!
1. Use our window template and cut out the bitsbetween the white window frame lines (cut outwhere the glass would be).
2. Cut colourful tissue paper, or any slightly seethrough paper, into lots of strips and shapes.
3. Carefully glue the pieces of paper, in laters, to thebacks of the white window frame.
D.I.Y. Stained Glass Windows
1 x our window
template
Scissors
Colourful
tissue paper
Glue
Idea 2 - Tissue Paper
Try making your very own crafty "stained glass" window today! In this activity pack you'll find not 1 but 2 different ideas for making yourvery own D.I.Y. stained glass winows, using simple supplies you can(hopefully!) find at home!
HISTORY AT HOME :MEDIEVAL
MASTERPIECES
Top tip!It might help if you prittstick the whole back of thetissue paper pieces with glue, so they stick toeachother too!
Use this template tomake your own"stained glass"window!
Show us what you made!
@StGilesHighKirk
Or, if your feeling brave,you can try this usingthis more intricate template!
Show us what you made!
@StGilesHighKirk