Chartres Cathedral: stained-glass rose window
The stained-glass rose window in the north transept of Chartres Cathedral, France.
stained glass
- Key People:
- Henri Matisse
- Duccio
- William Morris
- Marc Chagall
- Fernand Léger
- Related Topics:
- Gothic architecture
- gemmail
- plique-à-jour
- flashed glass
- leading
stained glass, in the arts, the coloured glass used for making decorative windows and other objects through which light passes. Strictly speaking, all coloured glass is “stained,” or coloured by the addition of various metallic oxides while it is in a molten state. Nevertheless, the term stained glass has come to refer primarily to the glass employed in making ornamental or pictorial windows. The singular colour harmonies of the stained-glass window are less due to any special glass-colouring technique itself than to the exploitation of certain properties of transmitted light and the light-adaptive behaviour of human vision. Rarely equalled and ...(100 of 10535 words)