Sainte-Chapelle, the more petite Parisian structure in Notre Dame’s shadow, was built in 1248 as a house for King Louis IX to stash his collection of religious relics. The 50-foot-high stained glass ...

T he art of stained glass dates back thousands of years to Ancient Rome, but throughout the centuries there have been various styles and iterations to bring the old craft into modern eras. Rebecca ...

The French president Emmanuel Macron first announced the plans during a visit to the cathedral on December 8. He said he would initiate a competition inviting contemporary artists to submit designs ...

A highly controversial proposal to replace the historic stained glass windows in Paris’s iconic Notre-Dame cathedral with contemporary works has been rejected by France’s National Heritage and ...

French president Emmanuel Macron, backed by the archbishop of Paris, is planning to replace a series of stained-glass windows, even though they remained intact after the devastating fire of 2019.

Light fills Brooke Dearborn Huston’s studio on a sunny afternoon, illuminating her stained-glass art pieces. The walls are lined with boxes full of colorful glass waiting to be used in her next ...

What if the vast, beautiful stained glass windows of cathedrals could be used to generate energy? Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel explored this idea with her project Current Window, a modern, ...

The windows in six chapels on the southern side of the cathedral will be replaced with new windows designed by modern French painter Claire Tabouret. French artist Claire Tabouret poses following a ...

When a fire raged through Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019, it didn’t destroy the structure’s stained-glass windows, which were created by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1859. Last month, however, ...