Sainte-Chapelle, the more petite Parisian structure in Notre Dame’s shadow, was built in 1248 as a house for King Louis IX to stash his collection of religious relics. The 50-foot-high stained glass ...

T he art of stained glass dates back thousands of years to Ancient Rome, but throughout the centuries there have been various styles and iterations to bring the old craft into modern eras. Rebecca ...

In this increasingly irreligious society, it’s not surprising that stained glass has become largely irrelevant to contemporary architecture. But it’s not just a lack of faith that created our ...

French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated this week his promise to reopen the famous Notre Dame in one year, but he enraged some when he announced he would put contemporary stained-glass windows in ...

A highly controversial proposal to replace the historic stained glass windows in Paris’s iconic Notre-Dame cathedral with contemporary works has been rejected by France’s National Heritage and ...

The Church of England has asked David Hockney to create windows for Westminster Abbey – but nothing can touch the majesty and historical power of medieval glass David Hockney is to create stained ...

When a fire raged through Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019, it didn’t destroy the structure’s stained-glass windows, which were created by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859. Last month, however, ...

Seeing stained glass in more modern settings has given Tiffany Stained Glass more avenues to explore how they can preserve and bring the craft into the contemporary space We live in interesting times: ...

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 ...

Traditionalists opposing the use of six modern stained-glass windows in the restored Notre Dame de Paris have collected over 130,000 signatures to a petition presented to the French presidency. The ...

NewsThe National Commission for Heritage and Architecture unanimously opposed the replacement of Viollet-le-Duc's stained glass windows, a move desired by President Macron. The Culture Ministry has ...