Origin of Glass Paintings in India

Glass Painting is not merely painting on glass. Rather it is the use of transparent enamel colors to produce decorative effects in glass. Both the medium (glass) and the painting combine to give an ethereal effect.

   

Glass painting in India is a comparatively recent phenomenon; it emerged in the state of Gujarat at around the 18th century. 

Oldest Stained Glass at Augsburg Cathedral, Germany

Some of the earliest known examples of coloured window glass, datable to 800–820, were recovered in excavations at the Abbey of San Vicenzo in Volturno, Italy. 

  

Glass of the same colour ranges and similar date is also found in England, at the monastic sites of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, and at other sites in the north of England.