The ancient art of creating and repairing stained-glass windows is alive and well in Southwest Georgia thanks to craftsman Jim Beasley, whose original designs and preservation work can be found at ...
Colored glass has been produced since ancient times. Throughout history, stained glass masterpieces have decorated interiors of churches and other significant buildings with magnificent and iridescent ...
The artists at Judson Studios are showing their true colors -- reshaping their ancient craft and designing works for religious and non-religious uses alike, as Anna Werner discovered: If you're coming ...
The mention of stained glass often brings to mind Louis Comfort Tiffany and his magnificent windows. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a wave of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants settle ...
Sunlight illuminated the "Easter Morning" scene of Mary Magdalene weeping at an empty tomb while a resurrected Jesus stood behind her. Muted for decades by grime and discoloring, the red robes ...
Stained glass has a few associations for us, namely: church and church. Also: church. Which makes what Paul Housberg does for a living nothing short of revolutionary: He takes the fusty old art of ...
The French president and the Church have overruled the National Commission for Heritage and Architecture, with their plans to replace stained-glass windows designed by Viollet-Le-Duc in six of the ...
Whatever religion we classify ourselves as – or even if we actively renounce or denounce organized religion in all its forms – the one aspect of Christianity those in predominantly Christian countries ...
Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...
Step into Carlisle Cathedral, in Cumbria’s largest city, and you are immediately awestruck by the vast 51-foot-tall stained-glass East Window that stands sentry behind the altar. Dating from 1359, ...