calling dale chihully- re notre dame windows. [View all]
i had a short engage w someone here about the "lost arts" that created the nd stained glass windows, that the recipes for some colors were lost to time. that they just could not be recreated.
i contended that some artist, somewhere, had either found the records somewhere, gotten enough clues to what the recipes were, or figured it out for themselves.
add on new tech, and some incredibly talented restorers out there, i have no doubt that any ruined windows can be recreated very nearly perfectly.
hell, you can put a tiny bit in a couple of scientific instruments that arent even that new and get a pretty damn accurate starting point.
as exhibit A- i give you dale chihully. he is a modern master of the art of color theory, and glass color chemistry.
at this point in his life, he is passing down his skills and has a whole stable of artists that do most of the grunt work for him. which is to say- a lot like those good old days.
art and science in one package. how you get this shit done.
i vote for him to produce the glass.
change my mind.
= new reply since forum marked as read