The Least Read Post of 2023: Of Stained Glass and the Stories Churches Tell
Give it a chance, willya?
There is an artistry to stained glass. It is not just in the colors and shadings, but in a way so subtle that most contemporary stained glass artists neither practice it nor know of it.
It’s called Type and Anti-Type.
If one should walk into an ancient church, staring up the center aisle towards the altar, and then turn and look to his or her left, one m…