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Gothic stained glass window designs.
They were supplanted by painted glass and the lovely old stained glass was rejected as outdated.
Colored paint made from iron filings and ground glass suspended in a liquid binder typically.
Gothic was a style of architecture that developed in france around 1140 and spread throughout europe.
The gothic sanctuary is lined with nearly 84 foot tall stained glass windows designed by walther benner and anton wendling after the original glazing was destroyed during world war ii.
Stained glass windows were a prominent feature of towering gothic churches.
The eighteenth century saw the expulsion of numerous medieval stained glass windows.
In the nineteenth century there was a resurgence of enthusiasm for gothic design and glass studios in britain made their variants of medieval windows for gothic recovery structures.
Making medieval stained glass windows for gothic architecture was dangerous work performed by guild craftsmen who combined alchemy nano science and theology.
One purpose of stained glass is to serve as a source of meditation drawing the viewer into a contemplative state.
The colorful patterns of stained glass earned it a special place in the world of art and architecture.
The development of stained glass in gothic cathedrals.
Rose windows are the large circular stained glass windows found in gothic churches.
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They originated with the oculus a small round window in ancient roman architecture.
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Throughout most of its over thousand years of history stained glass has been associated with glass panels and windows of significant constructions such as churches.