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History of stained glass as a material from medieval times to the present, including well-known and not-so-well-known artists and craftspeople who have made significant contributions to the craft and to the art of its design.

Subcategories

• Burne-Jones, Edward
• Holiday, Henry
• Kempe, Charles Eamer
• Morris, William
• Tiffany, Louis

Resources in This Category

• Corpus Narratologica

  http://www.medievalart.org.uk/
  Stuart Whatling's high-resolution photographs of medieval narrative art, concentrating on French 13th century stained glass.

• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

  http://www.cvma.ac.uk/
  The British section (funded by the British Academy) of an international survey of stained glass. Searchable image database (with over 10,000 colour images), and online ordering for related publications.

• Friends of the Windows of St. James Chapel

  http://www.windows.org/
  Aims to preserve the stained-glass windows created in 1918 by the John J. Kinsella Company at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago. History, campaign news and calendar of events.

• Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright

  http://www.lightscreens.com/
  On-line version of an exhibition about Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for stained-glass windows.

• Margaret Agnes Rope and Margaret Edith Rope

  http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/
  Biographies and works of the Rope cousins, who worked in the Arts and Crafts style, with photographs.

• Medieval Stained Glass Windows from Esslingen am Neckar

  http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/essling/english/glas01.html
  Exhibit of 13th and 14th-century German stained glass. Full-color images, with commentary on background, techniques, construction, and artistic themes.

• Michelli's History of Stained Glass

  http://www.plinia.net/
  Perette Elizabeth Michelli has gathered a collection of links to stained glass resources and added her own commentary, which provides a history.

• The Stained Glass Museum, Ely Cathedral

  http://www.stainedglassmuseum.com/
  Houses a national collection of British stained glass. The illustrated online catalogue can be browsed by designer, subject, date or place. Includes brief biographies of designers.

• The Stained Glass Windows of Memorial Hall, Harvard University

  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/staingls.html
  The collection of stained glass in Memorial Hall comprises a veritable museum of American stained glass. Descriptions and photos of the windows, by various English and American designers.

• The Windows of Judson

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/kramer4.asp
  History of the stained-glass windows designed by John La Farge in the 1890s for the socially aware, arts-oriented community at Judson Memorial Church, New York, and commentary on their restoration.

• The Windows of St. Chapelle, Paris, France. 1243-48

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/chapelle.html
  A page of pictures of the windows of this church, by Prof. Jeffery Howe from Boston College. Part of his site 'A Digital Archive of Architecture'.

• The Windows of St. Etienne, Bourges, France

  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/bourges_glass.html
  A page of pictures of the windows of this church, by Prof. Jeffery Howe from Boston College. Part of his site 'A Digital Archive of Architecture'.

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