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During the late medieval period, glass factories were set up where there was a ready supply of silica, the essential material for glass manufacture.Silica requires a very high temperature to melt, something not all glass factories were able to achieve.
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 naturalistic figures.
Image Date Location Maker Description Notes 1954 River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: Patrick Reyntiens: Rectangular panel depicting two heads of kings, made by Patrick Reyntiens based on watercolour painting provided by Piper and inspired by glass seen at Chartres Cathedral and Bourges Cathedral.
The "Geneva Window" is a stained glass window consisting of 8 panels, created by Harry Clarke from 1927 to 1930. [1] [2] [3] It was originally commissioned by the Irish Free State government for the League of Nations' International Labour Building in Geneva. [3]
A few important examples of 12th-century windows are found at Chartres Cathedral on the inside of the western facade, in three lancet windows under the rose window. These windows survived a devastating fire in the Cathedral in 1194, and are considered some of the best examples of 12th-century work in France. [5]
Medieval stained glass is the colored 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).