NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Stained glass, an art perfected in the Medieval era in Europe, is alive and well in America in the 21st century as artists and craftsmen involved in its creation take ...

Not everything they do is church-related. Sometimes they make lamps or doors or decorative windows through which light moves and transforms. Sometimes the small team of artisans just fixes cracks and ...

GREENVILLE — As parishioners leave St. James' Episcopal Church, the last image they will see just before they walk out the front doors is the parable of the Good Samaritan. The image depicted in the ...

Like portals from the heavens, stained-glass windows give reason to pause. When sunshine seeps through, the light they cast illuminates in brilliant colors and shapes. There is no need to look outside ...

Steve Gentis spends his days marrying soft lead to glass, and his rough hands show the strain with cuts and stains. In the studio at Seattle Stained Glass in Wallingford, Gentis’ hands move swiftly ...

When St. Peter Catholic Church in Volo, Illinois, wanted a huge stained-glass window of Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing to Juan Diego done in the traditional 19th-century Munich style once predominant ...

VALLEY CITY, N.D.-From her pew, Illa Glandt watched the stained-glass window come to life. When the sun set, the white dove in the center of the 12-by-15-foot window lit up, hovering over the ...

What will the future modern stained-glass windows of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral look like? The designs of visual artist ...

A Tiffany-stained glass window salvaged from the Abbey Mausoleum in Arlington, Virginia, has a storied past and is now on track for a new future. Arlington Now first reported that the “Christ in ...

Much modern stained glass tends to be abstract, inviting viewers to engage their emotions and, perhaps, encounter awe in the presence of God. At Blackburn Cathedral, 56 panes of vibrant coloured glass ...