The eight-foot tall, freestanding windows depict the seven angels of the Churches in Asia to whom letters are written in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. Named for Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea, excerpts of the corresponding biblical passages are incorporated into each window.

Arthur Femenella, the Tiffany stained-glass conservator overseeing the restoration of these windows and curator of the collection, has much to share about the design and creation of this unique set of Tiffany windows. Art writes, “These Tiffany windows are selected from a rich and varied palette of opalescent, drapery, rolled, textured, antique and flashed glass. The faces and flesh of the angels are delicately hand painted with vitreous paint. The rest of the windows are exquisitely plated, a technique developed by Tiffany and John La Farge involving the mechanical layering of layers of glass used to achieve depth.”