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Mark Culham
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Rough notes on the visual language of silent films

You owe me money
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Rough notes on the visual language of silent films

- the directions
- let me confirm those directions
- yes, you have them right, my dear
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Rough notes on the visual language of silent films

The hide behind the door classic
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Funny as it may sound these remind me of the often abstract stained glass maker Alan Younger. I'm aware of two windows of his where what I take to be his usual style has been added to with quarries like these.

St Nicholas, Alcester
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Fairford's Presentation of Mary at the Temple, is unusual in that she is climbing the steps and is about to enter but there is no priest to meet her, there's no one at all. Unusual but not unique. The British Museum has a couple of prints.

This by the Master of the Berlin Passion.
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Presentation of Mary at the Temple

I'm up to four medieval Presentations in stained glass for the UK

St Mary's, Fairford
📷 Rex Harris
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Raising of Lazarus
All saints, Gresford
Stained glass by Lucien-Léopold Lobin

He has used a distinctive section of Julius Schnorr Von Carolsfeld's woodcut, but nothing else. How odd.
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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You can't just stick a half naked man in your painting willy-nilly. I'm being forced to speculate and I don't like being forced to do anything. If he's a Cynic how am I supposed to make sense of that? The beginning of an ascetic religion. Diogenes and his barrel (it was a jar!) having lost his lamp.
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Presentation of Mary
Domenico Ghirlandaio

When I first saw this I was confused by the woman running down the stairs, I couldn't place her in the story but that was because I was reading the Protoevangelium of James and not Pseudo-Matthew who states Mary entered into a 'community of virgins'.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Will Kimball has researched this design, he's interested in all things trombone, and believes it originated with Pieter de Witte c.1590,and shows it repeated on canvas, stone, silver, wood, and glass. Interestingly he does not have the London one.

kimballtrombone.com/2010/06/15/s...
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
and now the thickened sky
Like a dark ceiling stood
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