Stained glass refers to the stained glass used as a material or as a work of art. Throughout its thousands-year history, it has been specially applied to windows used in churches, mosques and many important buildings. Although they were made as flat sheets and then as windows, the works of modern artists of stained glass also include three-dimensional structure and carvings. Modern general use has broadened the term stained glass to include stained glass with domestic copper plates and glass artifacts with the metal Famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany