The artists at Judson Studios are showing their true colors -- reshaping their ancient craft and designing works for religious and non-religious uses alike, as Anna Werner discovered: If you're coming ...

A worker installs the reproduction of a stained glass window, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), February 1, 2023. STÉPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP Behind the basilica of Saint-Denis (in the ...

A former Saint John church, built after the Great Fire of 1877, is quickly turning to rubble, but some of its majestic stained glass windows have been rescued from demolition. Saint John artist Vicky ...

Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel, Pittsford, N.Y., 2003 / Third Generation (Valerie O’ Hara, designer). (Photo courtesy of Pike Stained Glass Studios) Back in the early 2000s, I enrolled in a writing ...

Step into Carlisle Cathedral, in Cumbria's largest city, and you are immediately awestruck by the vast 51-foot-tall stained-glass East Window that stands sentry behind the altar. Dating from 1359, ...

After a seven-year restoration, the stained-glass windows at medieval Gothic chapel Sainte-Chapelle in Paris have been completed. The $10 million restoration was finished in time to mark the 800th ...

Churches feature stained glass windows for more than just beauty. They served as visual aids during the Middle Ages, teaching biblical stories to a largely illiterate population. These windows, ...

The hand-painted face of a sheep peeks out of an assortment of colorful glass fragments on a wooden worktable at Stanton Studios, in Waco. The weathered visage, its details hard to decipher against ...

Critics say the emphasis on diversity and emotional expression risks translating a central mystery of the Church into the visual language of the present moment, weakening the symbolic coherence of a ...