One by one, all the town's lights turn off. First the streetlamps, then the shops and the restaurants. Even the moon is covered by thick clouds. Standing in the centre of Assisi, I can't see a single ...

In houses of worship around the world, and around Knoxville, ambiance matters. Often, stained glass helps evoke that feeling of stepping into a sanctuary. The aesthetics of a church or other faith ...

A stained glass solar window on the floor of a CES 2024 press event was more than meets the eye. I was looking not just at an art object, but a solar panel capable of turning sunlight energy into ...

Ireland has no shortage of churches and cathedrals, but some are home to stained-glass masterpieces by Ireland's own world-renowned artist, Harry Clarke. Harry Patrick Clarke was born on March 17, ...

Five years after a fire destroyed most of the cathedral, the artist explains how her designs will give the landmark a modern makeover and the ‘contemporary gesture’ Emmanuel Macron promised Claire ...

A cathedral's stained glass window has been named as the "nation's favourite" in a competition organised by the Association of English Cathedrals. Depicting the life of Jesus, Carlisle Cathedral's ...

Critics say the emphasis on diversity and emotional expression risks translating a central mystery of the Church into the visual language of the present moment, weakening the symbolic coherence of a ...

PARIS (CN) — In an airy, sunlit room in the Grand Palais in Paris, people stare at a painting of the Virgin Mary against a hot pink sky. She is not depicted as a divine figurine, but as a modern woman ...

Under the griddled glass ceiling of the Grand Palais in Paris, six towering arched forms rise in sequence, unfolding like a nave. Their surfaces are washed in blues, greens, and ember reds. From a ...

A historic Leicestershire church has been damaged following acts of "mindless vandalism" during a burglary. Officers are appealing to the public for information. Leicestershire Police said the ...