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 ...

Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining ... made of fragments of early glass. These figures are thought to represent St Edward and Edward the "Black" Prince. Around 30,000 small ...

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

France has selected Claire Tabouret to design new stained glass windows for Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris—a divisive proposal ...

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 ...

Reminding me of the beautiful circular rose windows of medieval cathedrals ... To reveal new regions of reality and its beauty, unexpectedness plays a role too. Stained-glass art is the convergence 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 ...

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.

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.