A worker installs the reproduction of a stained glass window, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), February 1, 2023. STÉPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP Behind the basilica of Saint-Denis (in the ...
From her quiet studio, Kathy Chapman restores century-old church windows while nurturing a deeply personal art practice.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a historic stained-glass window by Tiffany. The three-part Garden Landscape window (1912) was commissioned by the philanthropist Sarah B. Cochran—a coal ...
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 ...
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 ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — The most viewed art in Syracuse may not be at museums, but on the windows of our churches. The work is exquisite. Churches have told and retold Biblical stories and the stories of the ...
Hong Kong-based hedge fund director Robert McCarthy was working in London in the 1990s when he bought his first medieval object. That day, the New York native was looking at furniture in an antique ...
Stained glass, an art form of light and memory, is at the centre of a global conversation about heritage, conservation, and ...
The Grant Wood Rest Area, on northbound Interstate 380 south of Cedar Rapids, is the Iowa Department of Transportation's tribute to regionalist painter Grant Wood, replacing a decades-old visitor ...
Some say that in modern times, comic book superheroes have become the world’s secular religion. We gather in movie theaters and in front of our televisions to see stories about mutant heroes and alien ...
A stained glass solar window on the floor of a CES 2024 press event was more than meets the eye. I was looking not just at an art object, but a solar panel capable of turning sunlight energy into ...