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The stained glass window: You may often pass a church and not even take in its beauty. These impressive works of art have been around for centuries. Interestingly enough although many religious buildings with stained glass would have had the pieces made by respected craftspeople of the time, some even ancient churches had their stained glasses done by famous artists. In the 20th century, artists again began to become involved with decoration in religious buildings stain glasses so it’s still a current subject, find out more in The Modern Windows<\/em> here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The light pours through the colours shine, spreading their joyous tones around the room. Stain-glass windows usually show a significant number of religious symbols or biblical, religious stories to honour their individual religious entities some however, are more abstract due to certain religions not allowing people to be shown in art works. But these decorative glass spaces do cross many different practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly it was John Thornton, the first named artist in British history who was behind the stained glass windows at one of the oldest Churches in the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

York Minster which was built in 637 AD in York, England as it was one of the greatest of all European cathedrals, a Gothic masterpiece of northern England that incorporated a giant east-facing window that has the largest expanse of stained glass anywhere before the modern era. Designed by John Thornton it features at its heart an intense depiction of the coming apocalypse. <\/p>\n\n\n

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However, it’s not only churches that have glass-stained decorations, but mosques synagogues and other places of worship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One mosque with glass-stained windows is the Nas\u012br al-Mulk Mosque which is situated in Shiraz, Iran which was constructed between 1876 and 1888, during the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Iran from 1785 to 1925. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dubbed \u201cthe pink mosque\u201d due to the plethora of pink-coloured tiles that covered the ceiling.  The construction of the glass-stained windows was created at the same time as the building of the mosque and it is one of the most popular mosques in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the most recent years, there have been a lot of artists that have created iconic decorations across diverse religions. They include a diverse set of creatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist and one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century. He created a stained-glass window in 1964 for the United Nations which was named \u201cThe Peace Window\u201c to honour a UN second Secretary General who was killed in a plane crash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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