The use of stained-glass windows transformed ordinary light into something divine, and Gothic architecture developed partly out of a desire to build churches with larger windows so that God’s ...

The Gothic Age was famed for its towering churches filled with colorful light shining through glorious stained glass and devout pilgrims. The revolutionary skeletal Gothic church design is best ...

You start getting architecture that is linear, skeletal, and light-filled ... inhabitants with God. High Gothic Saint-Denis, as well as other Early Gothic churches like Sens Cathedral and ...