The distinguished art of stained glass, glass or stained glass is a texture made of stained glass, painted or coated with enamel, which are assembled using lead cames. The history of ancient art and was used in the temples of the Romantic period but reaches its peak in the Gothic architecture and are becoming popular since the thirteenth century. Boasted mosaic forms embodied in each matters religious, historical or symbolic. In the sixteenth century were tailored one-piece stained glass windows painted with enamel colorless gray or grisaille, in the middle of the century was invented way different colors take any piece of glass that have resulted in stained glass as if strips were canvas or painting, this class far less transparent windows and brighter than the above is the Renaissance style.

Romantic stained glass shade these windows have a warm and radiant arrangement of elements that form the whole picture in order to have an effect on the image, equivalent series of geometric patterns such as medallions, etc. lobes.

Gothic stained glass earns a place, for example in churches and cathedrals of France becomes hegemonic art, that is the supremacy of color and drawing, they did join the majority of European art centers and workshops this new technique. The art of stained glass has a dominance over other techniques of painting to those imposed by its statutes, saturated colors and shapes are defined and precise aesthetic models. Then the stained glass in the twentieth century contemporary modern art represented by great artists in cartons that are designed to make stained glass art workshops and performing a large number of glass pieces that are dyed in their own mass and enhanced with grisaille strokes to be finally united with strips of lead that define the figures and isolate the different colors while maintaining its value. In Costa Rica and many countries around the world one of the most widely used techniques for making stained glass is known as the Tiffany Style. The first Tiffany lamp was created in the style around 1895, beautiful in design and complexity, each lamp was handmade by skilled craftsmen. Its designer was not, as had been thought for over 100 years, Louis Comfort Tiffany, but one woman named Clara Driscoll acknowledged that was identified in 2007 by Professor Martin Eidelberg Rutgers as the lead designer behind the most creative and valuable lead crystal chandeliers and produced by Tiffany Studios. The Tiffany style is remembered for the invention and use of a process of iridescent glass opalescent glass crafting (Avril glass) that was used to decorate with colorful, windows, doors, lamps, vases and other decorative art objects. A if you like over a century the Tiffany style is still used, their opalescent glass with a variety of colors and textures are great for creating a unique style of stained glass that differs from previous methods of transparent glass or enamel painted that had been the dominant method in creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe.