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The Lycurgus Cup is a cup made out of stained glass. It is special because the glass changes color when light shines through it. [Lycurgus Cup Image](<img src="https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/stained-glass-history-3.jpg" alt="Early Roman Stained Glass "/>) The Lycurgus Cup, 4th century CE (Photo: The British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
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Stained glass was starting to be made into windows, as in adorn abbeys, convents, and some other religious buildings.
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This is when stained glass made its way to the middle east. Then they had created a cookbook so then they know what glass they are making if they add certain things to the glass.
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In this time the catholic churches are now making windows out of stained glass. They are making the stained glass into two kinds of windows. One of them is a tall and arched lancet windows, the other one is the [round rose window.](<img src="https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/stained-glass-history-7.jpg" alt="Romanesque Stained Glass"/>) Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris (Photo: Stock Photos from Viacheslav Lopatin) This one is personally my favorite.
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In the 12 century a German monk had written a book on how to make sheets of stained glass.
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People started using [silver stain](<img src="https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/09/06/10/29/24/bf85eafd-2c47-4a59-aa48-0375e035d6f2/Glass-monochrome-2006AA7572.jpg" alt="Stained glass scene depicting Saint George taking leave of the King of Selene."/>) (1520 – 30, Netherlands. Museum no C.352-1930. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.) because of the reverse of the glass and burns into the surface when fired.
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People began to insert roundels into their houses for decoration.
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We found a sketch from a southern German painter in the 15th century. Who had a plan to make a stained glass window. This shows that stained glass has been passed down from generation to generation.
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In the 16th century people started using diamond cutters, because it gave them a lot better edge and it helped them cut out their shapes easier.
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Americans start to make more fashionable and new items from stained glass, like windows in school buildings, and lamps made out of stained glass. (Tiffany glass collection dragonfly by Can Pac Swire 2018)
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People today are trying to make stained glass more fun and new and not some old thing that is just still here today.
