David Levering Lewis, a distinguished scholar of American history, finds his own inspiration in the sight of a stained-glass window—it leads him to discover his own unremembered past and serves ...

light.” Then, as now, stained glass windows required mastery in both artistic and technical realms. Besides enhancing the space into which it is set, a window must weather the elements ...

The 1883 home was built for the famous lumber baron and features more than 40 stained glass windows ... amount of patience, the light through the window — seeing the windows restored to ...

The former storm windows were frosted so the new clear storm windows will bring additional light into the ... There are also the Great East and Great West stained glass windows.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a historic stained ... glass landscapes and her exploration of light through opalescent stained-glass was inspired by the American Impressionists. The ...

vaulting stained glass windows colored and changed the eastern light flowing into the Pitcher-Goff House. The windows withstood hurricanes and hard times, the Great Depression and urban renewal.

such as the stained glass window I saw, can also operate as a solar panel. The technology is fairly simple. Instead of using opaque black or blue cells of silicon to catch light energy and turn it ...

Modern styles, often with light, warm colors, appear in homes’ entryways and bathrooms to create meditative moments of impact. Stained-glass windows can be protected with additional sheets of ...

An East Coast ... lead and sand—stained glass windows have made the sense of God more tangible for centuries. It’s easier to believe in a higher being, perhaps, with light wafting prisms ...

And it’s a snapshot of what makes stained glass art, an interplay between light and colour ... glass pieces together to form a stained glass window. Sometimes, faces, figures, emblems ...