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Stained Glass: A Colorful History in Light

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Stained glass has been used to tell stories in color and light for well over a thousand years. The earliest surviving examples come from MEDIEVAL Europe, where craftspeople embedded colored glass into lead frameworks to fill the windows of churches and cathedrals. These windows were far more than decoration — in an era when most people could not read, they served as VISUAL storytelling, communicating SCRIPTURE and SACRED history to entire communities. The TECHNIQUE of cutting colored glass and binding pieces together with strips of lead called CAME gave artists the ability to create images of remarkable complexity. From the very beginning, stained glass was both a craft and a form of mass communication.

In medieval churches, stained glass communicated stories to people who could not _____.

READ

The strips of lead that hold glass pieces together in a window are called _____.

CAME

Name something the text tells us about medieval stained glass windows.

TOLD STORIES / FILLED CHURCH WINDOWS / USED LEAD CAME / SHOWED SCRIPTURE

Stained glass served as _____ storytelling in communities where most people could not read.

VISUAL

Name two settings the text mentions where stained glass was used.

CHURCHES / CATHEDRALS

Medieval Europe is a period also sometimes called the _____.

MIDDLE AGES

Writing Prompt

What stands out to you about stained glass being used as a form of mass communication before people could read?

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