There is a well-known scene early in “Remembrance of Things Past” when Marcel Proust describes the enchantments of a magic lantern, “in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory ...

Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity – Percy Bysshe Shelley I often find peacefulness in a soaring stone church, a cool open place to sit and contemplate.

Paris’s freshly renovated Notre-Dame Cathedral will soon get a distinctively 21st-century touch, having unveiled plans to install new stained glass windows by 43-year-old French artist Claire Tabouret ...

Stained glass windows were a hallmark of upward-mobility sensibilities, an aspirational gesture for people enjoying the fruits of boomtown St. Paul. For seven years I lived in an old house built by a ...