The art of stained glass is the only medium that is observed through refracted light, rather than the reflected light by which we view paintings, sculpture and photographs. This quality of stained ...

Stained glass reflects the centrality of religion to medieval life. Wealthy donors paid for artworks to be put into churches; for the glory of God and to remind their contemporaries to pray for them.

Westminster Abbey has very little medieval ... of glass from the 18th century to the present day. In the windows at the west end of the aisles of the nave are composite figures made of fragments of ...

Some of Derbyshire's "rarest and finest preserved" medieval stained glass windows are to be restored to their former glory. The three windows, belonging to Dronfield Parish Church, have been ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage Stained glass has been used for centuries to create wonderful colours and patterns using light. Oksana Kondratyeva describes ...

From satirical apes, symbolising fraud, to the phoenix, representing immortality, medieval stained glass windows were a ... to help pupils learn about art and art history. When conservation ...

Though it took 632 years to complete, this five-aisled basilica, reaching a staggering 157 meters high, is the ultimate ...

They represent around five percent of the total area of stained glass in the world-renowned tourist attraction, which ...