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 ...

More than 1,000 years of history is being rediscovered as a new project offers a rare glimpse into the lives of our medieval ...

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 ...

Provenance: German private ownership View on Auktionshaus Dirk Nudel Website Contact Auktionshaus Dirk Nudel Description: Two stained glass artworks in leaded glass Leaded glass 8 ...

A new book shows how Connick harnessed the ancient medium as ‘a potent means of contemporary visual expression’ ...

its immense influence on the art of Middle Age Christianity, Chartres Cathedral appears as an essential landmark in the history of medieval architecture. The outstanding stained-glass ensemble, ...

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 ...

The 600-year-old window is the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the country, said the minster. The final panel, of the 311 removed by York Glaziers Trust in the £11m project ...

Displayed in a great hall in a building in downtown Rochester, a three-column work of stained glass—considered one of the finest in the country—depicts 2,000 years of medical history in 12 panels.

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.