Gemmail (French, plural ''gemmaux'') describes a type of

stained glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

art developed during the 1930s by French painter

Jean Crotti Jean Crotti (24 April 1878 – 30 January 1958) was a French painter. Crotti was born in Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland. He first studied in Munich, Germany at the School of Decorative Arts, then at age 23 moved to Paris to study art at the ...

. Translated from French, the word literally means “enamel gem.” It differs from traditional stained glass techniques in that the individual pieces of colored glass are not joined by lead

came A came is a divider bar used between small pieces of glass to make a larger glazing panel. There are two kinds of came: the H-shaped sections that hold two pieces together and the U-shaped sections that are used for the borders. Cames are mostl ...

, but overlapped and glued together with a clear substance.

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

is said to have hailed gemmail as a new art form. Inside the

Basilica of St. Pius X The Basilica of Saint Pius X, informally known as the Underground Basilica, is a large Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, located in the town of Lourdes, France. It is part of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes. Lourdes is a major Cathol ...

Lourdes Lourdes (, also , ; oc, Lorda ) is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château ...

, Bernadette Soubirous's "Way of Light", based on sketches by

René Margotton René Margotton (1915-2009) was a French painter of the School of Paris, one of the last cubists of the 20th century. He was born in Roanne, France, in 1915, and died in 2009. He is also the father of Bernard Romain Biography He studied at the ...

, depicts the eighteen apparitions together with scenes from her life."Art: A New Art"
''Time,'' 1957.

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Encyclopædia BritannicaLarousse dictionary/encyclopedia (in French)Grand dictionnaire terminologique, Québec government's online dictionary (in French)Reverso online dictionary (in French)Mediadico online dictionary (in French)
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