In early 20th-century North America, stained glass was primarily associated with the artist-designers John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany, who both used the novel technique of opalescent glass.
Glassmaking dates back at least as far as the 16th century B.C. In this early epoch, the ancient Assyrians recorded the basic recipe for glass on clay tablets. But craftsmen of the Middle Ages raised ...
British space scientists are using medieval stained-glass to build a 'state of the art' camera bound for Mars. The space team are using the medieval technology to ensure pictures beamed back from Mars ...
From cross-eyed owls to apes offering cups of urine, the mysteries surrounding scores of stunning stained glass windows have been decoded as part of a £179,541 National Lottery Heritage Fund project.
HOW to replace ruined medieval stained-glass windows has over the centuries steadily troubled French civil and ecclesiastical authorities. Time and wars have taken a cruel toll. The great tapestries ...
PAINSTAKING work to restore world-famous medieval stained glass to its former glory is well underway with hidden secrets discovered. Urgent work to restore, protect and fortify the medieval glass of ...
Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining but there are good examples of glass from the 18th century to the present day. In the windows at the west end of the aisles of the nave ...
THE final piece of the largest medieval stained-glass window in the UK is finally in place after a decade-long £11.5m restoration at York Minster. The 600-year-old Great East Window was restored to ...
Two of the figures dating back to the 12th century are today part of the South Window at Canterbury Cathedral (Courtesy of The Chapter, Canterbury Cathedral) It is the first cathedral in England, ...
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