# Gemmail

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'''{{Lang|fr|Gemmail}}''' (French, {{plural form|'''{{Lang|fr|gemmaux}}'''}}) describes a type of [stained glass](/source/stained_glass) art developed during the 1930s by French painter [Jean Crotti](/source/Jean_Crotti). Translated from French, the word literally means "enamel gem".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Kelley|title=A Brief History of Gemmaux|url=http://www.cmog.org/article/gemmaux|website=Corning Museum of Glass|publisher=Corning Museum of Glass|accessdate=13 November 2014 |url-access=registration }}</ref> It differs from traditional stained glass techniques in that the individual pieces of colored glass are not joined by lead [came](/source/came), but overlapped and glued together with a clear substance.  [Pablo Picasso](/source/Pablo_Picasso) is said to have hailed gemmail as a new art form. Inside the [Basilica of St. Pius X](/source/Basilica_of_St._Pius_X) in [Lourdes](/source/Lourdes), Bernadette Soubirous's "Way of Light", based on sketches by [René Margotton](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Margotton), depicts the eighteen apparitions together with scenes from her life.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110622115255/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809295,00.html "Art: A New Art"],''Time,'' 1957.</ref>

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== References ==
*[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/228139/gemmail Encyclopædia Britannica]
*[http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/gemmail/36475 Larousse dictionary/encyclopedia (in French)]
*[https://archive.today/20030402061812/http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/R_MotClef/index800_1.asp Grand dictionnaire terminologique, Québec government's online dictionary (in French)]
*[http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-definition/gemmail Reverso online dictionary (in French)]
*[http://www.mediadico.com/dictionnaire/definition/gemmail/1 Mediadico online dictionary (in French)]

Category:Stained glass

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