Agnes F. Northrop for Tiffany Studios, "Garden Landscape" (1912), three-part window for Linden Hall, leaded Favrile glass, 124 × 246 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The ...
I think we can all agree that the idea of stained glass sounds a) old fashioned b) complicated and c) extravagant. We were thinking that, too, until we started to see the translucent colored material ...
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode Island’s role in ...
Stained glass is a highlight of English cathedrals, with many windows dating to medieval times. Tourists admire famous examples like York Cathedral’s Rose Window, St. George’s Chapel’s West Window in ...
A long-overlooked stained glass window created for a small Rhode Island church 147 years ago has been identified as a historic, first-of-its-kind depiction of Jesus as a Black man. The work of the ...
Inspired by the popular windows Marc Chagall created for France’s Metz Cathedral, German organist Bernhard Leonardy set out in search of the “Chagall of our day” to create a trio of stained glass ...
NEW YORK — Frank Lloyd Wright is starting to remind me of the frog from high school biology class. He has been dissected so much--in books, scholarly conferences and TV shows--that it seems there ...
There is a well-known scene early in “Remembrance of Things Past” when Marcel Proust describes the enchantments of a magic lantern, “in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory ...
The Art Institute has acquired a huge Tiffany stained glass church window that it will display prominently and is predicting will become a “museum icon,” the Chicago museum announced Wednesday. The 23 ...
A stained-glass Tiffany window originally designed for an Ohio church has sold for $12.48 million at auction. The Danner Memorial Window fetched more than $5 million over the upper limit of its ...
A stained-glass window depicting Jesus Christ as a person of color is prompting scrutiny into the role of race, slavery and gender in 19th-century New England. The window, which adorns St. Mark's ...