enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: glass windows shape

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Leadlight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadlight

    Leadlight. Domestic interior by Jan Vermeer showing a leadlight casement window. Leadlights, leaded lights or leaded windows are decorative windows made of small sections of glass supported in lead cames. The technique of creating windows using glass and lead came to be known as came glasswork. The term 'leadlight' could be used to describe any ...

  3. Window - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window

    A stained glass window is a window composed of pieces of colored glass, transparent, translucent or opaque, frequently portraying persons or scenes. Typically the glass in these windows is separated by lead glazing bars. Stained glass windows were popular in Victorian houses and some Wrightian houses, and are especially common in churches. [23]

  4. Lancet window - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_window

    A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a sharp lancet pointed arch at its top. [ 1] It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. [ 2] Instances of this architectural element are typical of Gothic church edifices of the earliest period. Lancet windows may occur singly, or paired under a single moulding, or grouped in an ...

  5. English Gothic stained glass windows - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Gothic_stained...

    England. English Gothic stained glass windows were an important feature of English Gothic architecture, which appeared between the late 12th and late 16th centuries. They evolved from narrow windows filled with a mosaic of deeply-coloured pieces of glass into gigantic windows that filled entire walls, with a full range of colours and more ...

  6. French Gothic stained glass windows - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Gothic_stained...

    France. French Gothic stained glass windows were an important feature of French Gothic architecture, particularly cathedrals and churches built between the 12th century and 16th century. While stained glass had been used in French churches in the Romanesque period, the Gothic windows were much larger, eventually filling entire walls.

  7. Medieval stained glass - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_stained_glass

    Medieval stained glass is the coloured and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).

  1. Ads

    related to: glass windows shape