Glass blowing developed around 1st century BCE in Palestine. Although the art of stained glass did not reach its height until Europe's Gothic Era, we find written descriptions of it dating as far back ...

the cathedral became Jerusalem itself – this was the aim and essence of sacred Gothic art and architecture. The sequence on the magical beauty of stained glass and gothic structure is inspiring.

Some of the rarest surviving 18th Century stained glass in Britain has been refitted at its gothic tomb. The National Trust returned the artwork to The Vyne in Basingstoke, Hampshire, after it was ...