Stained glass is colored glass, its hue produced by metallic oxide additives during manufacture, cut and assembled into pictorial or decorative panels held together by strips of lead or, in some traditions, copper foil, an architectural glazing tradition most closely associated with the windows of medieval European cathedrals from the twelfth century onward. Its use extended beyond religious buildings into secular civic and domestic architecture from the nineteenth century, particularly during the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts movements, and its capacity to transform ordinary daylight into colored, narrative or abstract patterns of light has kept it a valued architectural material into contemporary ecclesiastical, memorial and decorative commissions.
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Renowned for the largest surviving collection of medieval stained glass anywhere, most of it original to the 13th century.
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Stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material or art and architectural works created from it.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Amiens Cathedral
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masterpiece of Gothic architecture for the beauty of its interior elevation, its prodigious sculpted decoration and its stained glass
Peles Castle (Wikipedia)
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The interior of the castle is a true wonder, due to the beauty and richness of the sculpted wood and the stained glass windows.
Batalha Monastery (Wikipedia)
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Light enters the church through ten stained-glass windows of the clerestory and the tall, traceried windows in the side walls and the transept and through the two rows of lanciform windows in the choir.
Rajabai Clock Tower (Wikipedia)
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The tower has one of the best stained glass windows in the city.
Spanish Synagogue (Prague) (Wikipedia)
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In the eastern wall there is a great round stained glass window with a central ornament of Magen David (hexagram), installed in 1882-1883.
Villa Majorelle (Wikipedia)
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The curving stairway was made of massive oak, finely carved. the stairway was lit by stained glass window with a floral pattern by Jacques Gruber on the first landing, and large windows at the top of the stairwell.
Villa Bernasconi (Wikipedia)
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The main stairwell is dominated by a three section stained glass wall that lets light and colour in.
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