Trinity Episcopal Church - Table of Contents
2009 LaFarge Chancel Windows
Trinity Episcopal Church
389 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Designer: John
LaFarge
Date installed: 1886
Style: Opalescent
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Five chancel windows |
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Ascension |
Ascension |
Ascension |
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Ascension |
Ascension - Detail |
Ascension - Detail |
Ascension - Detail |
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Ascension - Detail |
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Noli Me Tangere |
Noli Me Tangere |
Noli Me Tangere |
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Noli Me Tangere |
Noli Me Tangere - Detail |
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Transfiguration |
Transfiguration |
Transfiguration |
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Transfiguration |
Transfiguration - Detail |
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Epiphany |
Epiphany |
Epiphany |
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Epiphany |
Epiphany - Detail |
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The Repose in Egypt |
The Repose in Egypt |
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The Repose in Egypt |
The Repose in Egypt - Detail |
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John LaFarge designed five windows as a set for the chancel with scenes of Christ's life based on Flemish and Italian Renaissance paintings.
Trinity Church possesses some of the finest stained glass in America.
The five magnificent windows in the apse and the rose window are by John LaFarge who developed a new method of manufacturing semi-translucent glass that simulated painted effects.
Opalescent glass is a system of manipulating glass to alter its thickness and surface, giving it a milky appearance. The glass is colored chemically in process, eliminating the need for surface painting except for face and hand details. LaFarge's techniques developed a whole new industry of glassmaking.
Lafarge's great contemporary, Louis Comfort Tiffany, popularized the process.
Trinity Church is one of only two places in the world where the work of these two art-glass pioneers sit side by side. Altogether there are five Tiffany windows in addition to ten superb items of LaFarge.
Between 1886 and 1897, eighteen impressive memorial windows were installed in the sanctuaryTrinity's Church Furnishing Society raised $56,000 for refurbishing the building and contracted with the LaFarge Decorative Art Company to decorate the chancel.
After traveling to Buffalo to meet with the architect and Building and Furnishing committees, LaFarge received additional contracts for the Rose Window, 5 lancet windows, and for 14 temporary nave windows. When the church opened in 1886, all the glass was by LaFarge.
Over the course of the years most of the temporary windows were replaced with memorials done by some of the major glass studios and/ or designers of the nineteenth century.
LaFarge adapted Andea Mantegna's Ascension for his Ascension window:
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Special thanks to Trinity Episcopal Church Rector The Rev. R. Cameron Miller and Development Director Coleen Fahey for their cooperation and assistance
