German, after Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), The Flagellation, Ecce Homo and The Entombment, mid-16th century. © V&A Images / Victoria and Albert Museum, London (538-1907, 539-1907, 540-1907)

LONDON.- The National Gallery presents today Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass, on view through 17 February 2008. This exhibition, the first of its kind at the National Gallery, sets out to demonstrate that the best stained glass from the Renaissance period fully reflected – and even rivalled – the latest developments in painting, while exploiting to the full the vibrant properties of light.

'Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass' brings together a group of some of the finest examples of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century German stained glass from the Victoria and Albert Museum collection – and juxtaposes them with a selection of National Gallery paintings from the same period and from the same regions of Germany, along with some surviving examples of designs for stained glass.

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