
Legacy Etched in
Glass - Needham studio's restoration artistry shines across the
country by Susan Chaityn Lebovits
- The Boston Globe -
December 20, 2007
Roberto Rosa and Domenico Iriti
have spent two decades repairing dozens of deities, numerous saints, and
countless angels. The heavenly beings can be found on the stained-glass windows
that have been meticulously restored by the artisans at Serpentino Stained &
Leaded Glass Inc. in Needham.............
Fragile treasure is whole
once more by Janice
O'Leary
- The Boston Globe - October
29, 2006
A jigsaw puzzle of more than 4,700
pieces -- 880 of them broken -- has been put back together, and was
unveiled last weekend at Mount Auburn Cemetery............
St. Stephen, Lynn Mass - May, 2006
Stained-glass repair is
major part of church restoration
by
Craig Salters
-
The Yarmouth Register - May 19, 2005
Roberto Rosa kneels three stories above
the ground on scaffolding outside the Yarmouth New Church in Yarmouth
Port. Oblivious to the height and the chilly spring weather, Rosa grabs a
stained-glass window roughly the size of a small ironing board and positions it
inside a window frame............
Steeped In History
by Marc Parry, Staff Writer
-
Cape Cod Times - May 17, 2005
YARMOUTHPORT - Roberto Rosa placed one blue-edged petal of the flower-shaped
stained glass window into the wall. Then his voice boomed down into the church
from his perch on a tower of scaffolding some 25 feet up in the air...........
He Knows How to Let the Sunshine In
by Matt McDonald - Boston
Globe - January 9, 2005
From the beginning, Matthew Fallon was
drawn in by color. "Glass is something that lives in light. And when
light hits a glass that's been designed by a master, it does something hard to
describe. The color is very, very powerful," Fallon said...........
Adhering to the Point -
The use of adhesives in stained glass restoration by Roberto Rosa - The
Building Conservation Directory - December, 2004 (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Need the
Acrobat reader? It's free—click
here.)
When involved in the restoration and
conservation of stained glass windows, it is of the utmost importance to
retain as much as the original fabric as possible..........
Letting the Sunshine In
by Matt McDonald - Boston
Globe - November 14, 2004
At this Needham studio,
stained-glass artisans give new meaning to window treatment..........
Clean slate -
Boston College Magazine - Summer, 2004
The stained glass windows of Bapst Library's Gargan Hall are being fully
restored for the first time in the building's 76-year history..........
Saving Windows to the
Past
by John Clayton - Manchester Union Leader -
April 11, 2004
THIS IS EASTER, a time to celebrate the Resurrection, and in an
old-world setting in Needham, Mass., skilled artisans are working to resurrect
revered pieces of the past for Manchester’s Catholic Medical Center..........
The Case of the
Missing Philosopher
by Roberto Rosa
AS LIBRARY OFFICIALS went through their routine inspection
of the renovations taking place in the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy,
Massachusetts, they knew something was wrong..........
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