STAINED GLASS

The term stained glass can refer to colored glass as a material or to works made from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches 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 objects art created from lead come and copper foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.