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Stained
Glass
The
term stained glass refers either to the material of colored glass
or to the art and craft of working with it. Throughout its thousand-year
history the term "stained glass" was applied almost exclusively
to the windows of churches, cathedrals, and other significant buildings.
Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows,
the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional
structures and sculpture.
Modern
vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass"
to include domestic leadlight and objets d'art created from lead
came and copper foil glasswork such as exemplified in the famous
lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Stained
glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive
the design, and the engineering skills necessary to assemble the
decorative piece, traditionally a window, so that it will fit snugly
into the window frame for which is is made and also, especially
in the larger windows, is capable of supporting its own weight and
surviving the elements. Many large windows have withstood the test
of time and remained substantially intact since the late Middle
Ages. In Western Europe they constitute the major form of pictorial
art to have survived. In this context, the purpose of a stained
glass window is not to allow those within a building to see the
world outside or even primarily to admit light but rather to control
it. For this reason stained glass windows have been described as
'illuminated wall decorations'.
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Stained
Glass Artwork by Caroline Kearns
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Rainbow
/ Nudes
Gorgeous stained glass
artwork from original patterns. Gay and lesbian-themed
artwork.
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Pet
Portraits
Immortalize your pet
in beautiful stained glass.
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Cats
Cat-themed stained glass.
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Dogs
Dog-themed stained glass.
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Art
refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations,
and expressions that are appealing or attractive to the senses
or have some significance to the mind of an individual. The
word "art" may be used to cover all or any of the
arts, including music, literature and other forms. It is most
often used to refer specifically to the visual arts, including
media such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking. However
it can also be applied to forms of art that stimulate the
other senses, such as music, an auditory art. Aesthetics is
the branch of philosophy which considers art.
Traditionally
the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery, a
concept which altered during the Romantic period, when art
came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind
to be classified with religion and science". Generally
art is a (product of) human activity, made with the intention
of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind;
by transmitting emotions and/or ideas. Beyond this description,
there is no general agreed-upon definition of art. Art is
also able to illustrate abstract thought and its expressions
can elicit previously hidden emotions in its audience.
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