Canadian Museum Of Nature Features Stained Glass Panels

The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa will unveil the fruits of an eight-year, multi-million-dollar renovation when it opens its doors to the public Saturday.

Inside the museum is a mix of modern renovations and restorations of the castle's original architectural details, including more than 70 stained glass panels that were repaired.

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Getty Museum Reopens North Pavilion Featuring Stained Glass

The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced that four permanent collection galleries at the Getty Center will reopen with an innovative re-installation of sculpture and decorative arts.

Additionally, the Museum’s collection of stained glass is now on permanent view for the first time since it was acquired in 2003. The collection of stained glass will now be shown without modern glass in front of it, so as not to conceal the depth and surface texture of the stained glass itself.

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$2 Million Offer For Church's Tiffany Windows

St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Paterson, New Jersey has had a collector offer them $2 million for 13 of its stained glass windows.

Louis Tiffany created 12 of the windows at the Diocese of Newark church and artist John La Farge designed the other. The would-be buyer wants to exhibit the works of art this fall and has given the church an April deadline to decide.

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Rarest Of Tiffany Lamps For Sale

What is being called the "Holy Grail of Tiffany lamps", a sublime stained-glass shade of lilies in soft hues of pink and green, cascading down in an oblong bell to a bronze base molded to resemble the delicate pads in the water is being offered for sale by the Macklowe Gallery in New York for a mere $3.5 million.

Benjamin Macklowe, of the Macklowe Gallery, said his firm waited for this year's Winter Antiques show to reveal the lamp, which would have cost $400 in 1906 (about a year's pay for a well-employed person.) There's only one left in the world for sale -- the other seven variations are in museums or private collections

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