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bjbj This is a landscape window by Louis Comfort Tiffany. It was designed in1905 for a very
large house at Irvington on Hudson, and this is in the Hudson River Valley where there
were a lot of large houses built in the late 19th and turn of the 20th centuries. This
window was prominently featured in the music room, which was a Gothic Revival room and
that means it was done in the Gothic style, and you can see that Gothic style in the original
frame of this window. The window depicts a view of the Hudson River, as it was actually
seen from the house, but this view shows us a perpetual summer with all kinds of flowering
plants, you can see the water in the background of the mountains. One of the things that you
should look for in this window, is the different kinds of glass that Tiffany uses: from the
patterned glass that he uses from the water, to the glasses he designed himself with subtly
changing colors in the mountains and in the sky; notice the changing colors in the flowers,
they become deeper in some areas. This is all glass, none of it is painted or stained
or enameled. The colors are actually built-up of layers of color, and in this, the window
is very much like the Impressionist painting that we know from the middle of the 19th century,
where artists went out into nature and tried to reproduce what landscape looked like using
brushstrokes of color to bring light into the painting, because really this landscape
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