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Published: October 30th 2015
Stained glass, an art-form dating as far back as 675 A.D., reached its greatest prominence in North-Western Europe during the Middle Ages. One can find it in many shapes and sizes, from eye-catching scenes of various degrees of complexity that people hang in their windows today, to enormous and intricate church windows made by great artists using hundreds, or even thousands, of individual pieces o...
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Nanci Phelan
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Bold and Beautiful
How nice to see a collection of Stained Glass pictures Fred. I can relate to your comments about the difficulty of photographing them though church windows are more about the colours of the glass and the paint on them, rather than the texture of the glas which really needs better light. It is uplifting to see that we have so many of them in Canada as well. I like the Tiffany one in photo 15 with the flames coming out of the Chalice, reminds me of our Unitarian symbol. Tiffany is certainly the most well known master. One thing I've noticed in viewing stained glass windows is that little is ever said about the artist or his concept. When doing a piece of glass there are a lot of decisions to make to make the concept work and many physical challenges in doing each piece. Thanks for covering a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I have seen some of the places you include so it was again, nice to have a bit of a walk down memory lane.