stained glass, in the arts, the coloured glass used for making decorative windows and other objects through which light passes. Strictly speaking, all coloured glass is “stained,” or coloured by the addition of various metallic oxides while it is in a molten state; nevertheless, the term stained glass has come to refer primarily to the glass employed in making ornamental or pictorial windows. The singular colour harmonies of the stained-glass window are due less to any special glass-colouring technique itself, however, than to the exploitation of certain properties of transmitted light and the light-adaptive behaviour of human vision. Rarely equalled and ... (100 of 11,279 words)
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Stained-glass window, St. Brendan’s Cathedral, Loughrea, Galway, Ireland.
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Prophet-king from a Tree of Jesse window, stained glass, German, c. 1260–70; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
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La Danse des Fiançailles, stained glass, French, 1885; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
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Religion Enthroned, glass and lead window by Frederick Stymetz Lamb and Charles R. Lamb from J & R Lamb Studios, Wyckoff, N.J., 1900; in the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
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Adoration of the Magi"/> Adoration of the Magi, leaded stained glass, silver stain, and enamel window by Charles Connick, 1925; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Overall 50.8 × 50.8 cm.
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Figure 206: Silver salt staining.Annunciation to the Shepherds, English 14th century stained-glass window in which silver salts have been used to stain the glass shades of yellow and the reds are streaky ruby glass.
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The so-called “Beautiful Window,” stained glass depicting the Virgin Mary on her throne, Chartres Cathedral, France.
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Stained-glass windows in the cathedral at Canterbury, Kent, England.
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The north rose window in Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France.
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Coronation of Edward VI, stained glass, Mansion House, London.