Stained Glass, translucent coloured glass used to compare designs in windows. The technique is similar to mosaic, the pieces of glass being held in strips of cast lead and mounted in a metal framework. Stained glass depends for its effect on light being transmitted through the translucent glass; thus the art is known as painting with light. It reached its zenith in Gothic architecture, most notably in France from about 1130 to 1330 (after Microsoft Encarta 1996).

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