AGG GlassZoom™ "The Essential Library"

"You really only need a select few books

in your journey as a glass craftsperson or scholar." 

Be prepared to champion your own favorites as we emphatically and conclusively prove the above thesis to be preposterous.

Join our Co-Hosts, AGG Senior Advisor Dr. Virginia Raguin, and the Metropolitan Museum’s Drew Anderson, as we share our favorite texts, resources, and maybe even some controversy about an “Essential Library” for stained glass.

We want your recommendations as well! Show your books and defend your authors.  I expect we'll tally dozens of recommendations before we're done. Stained Glass history? Absolutely! Stained Glass fabrication? Of course! Color theory, Ornament, Design principles, Biography and Craft Business?  Certainly!  We'll just be scratching the surface.

Hoping to See You June 22!

Don Burt - GlassZoom Host 

About our GlassZoom Co-Hosts

From Virginia's bio on the Corpus Vitrearum USA website:

Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Ph.D. Yale University, is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross, Emeritus. She has authored Stained Glass from its Origins to the Present with Abrams (USA) and Thames and Hudson (GB) in 2003. She wrote two Corpus Vitrearum catalogues: with Helen Zakin, Stained Glass before 1700 in the Midwest United States (Harvey Miller Press, London, 2002) and, as a single author, Stained Glass before 1700 in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum (Brepols, 2003). She edited Art, Piety, and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700 (Ashgate, 2010) and organized an exhibition with catalog, Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam (Serindia Press, 2010). Her concise Stained Glass: Radiant Art (2013) explains medieval and Renaissance stained glass through the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

From Drew's Bio at the Corpus Vitrearum USA website

Drew Anderson is responsible for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s stained glass collection. He received an M.A. in Stained Glass Conservation from the Victoria & Albert Museum, and served as senior conservator in the Stained Glass Conservation Section of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London from 1996-2004. He previously held a position as Manager at Goddard & Gibbs Stained Glass Studios, Ltd. in London. He has served as a stained glass committee member of the Council for the Care of Churches and Chairman of the Institute of Conservation Stained Glass Section in the UK.