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The monastery at Jarrow, where Bede was a monk, had stained glass – the earliest known in Britain. Tracing the development of the art from the 7th to the 21st centuries, Painting with Light offers an introduction to the techniques of making stained glass and goes on to look at styles and subjects. Technical improvements, like the introduction of yellow stain and of flashed glass, led to new ways of designing windows in the Middle Ages, but also, by the 17th century, when enamel colours could be painted on clear glass like a canvas, to the decline of true stained glass.