The art of stained glass is the only medium that is observed through refracted light, rather than the reflected light by which we view paintings, sculpture and photographs. This quality of stained ...

Westminster Abbey has very little medieval glass now remaining ... made of fragments of early glass. These figures are thought to represent St Edward and Edward the "Black" Prince. Around 30,000 small ...

Apart from the beauty of the architecture, it attests to the power of Christianity in medieval France ... outstanding examples of Gothic art. The following centuries left their mark on the cathedral: ...

Stained glass reflects the centrality of religion to medieval life. Wealthy donors paid for artworks to be put into churches; for the glory of God and to remind their contemporaries to pray for them.