Tuesday, April 9, 2013

What makes you happy? #8

Stained glass, if done right, is where human creativity and ingenuity intersects with nature and/or the divine.

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Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass, Carnegie ...
Louis Comfort Tiffany stained glass, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)




Tiffany Glass
Tiffany Glass (Photo credit: Harpersbizarre)













Then again, well-done abstract stained glass doesn't really need to be any of that, so maybe I'm full of it.



Stained glass
Stained glass (Photo credit: -eko-)
Landscape with Waterfall - Tiffany Studios, ea...
Landscape with Waterfall - Tiffany Studios, early 1920s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
















I love Tiffany, but I'm not really that picky.



Stained glass wooden panels. Creator: Louis Co...
Stained glass wooden panels. Creator: Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) of Tiffany's Studios around 1908-1912 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Stained Glass
Stained Glass (Photo credit: freefotouk)
















And instead of elaborating, let me just throw up some pictures.




English: The Holy City, by Louis Comfort Tiffa...
English: The Holy City, by Louis Comfort Tiffany Stained glass window at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Maryland. The window honors 19 th century clergyman and writer Maltbie Davenport Babcock, pastor of Brown Memorial 1887–1900. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
stained glass window
stained glass window (Photo credit: Tomasz Tuszko)
Austrian stained glass
Austrian stained glass (Photo credit: ILOVENJ)
Detail of a Tiffany Window Willard Chapel
Detail of a Tiffany Window Willard Chapel (Photo credit: Katy Silberger)






Tiffany Glass Ceiling - P6120052.JPG
Tiffany Glass Ceiling - P6120052.JPG (Photo credit: Flickred!)






























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