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Minnesota in 3/4 Time

Does this remind you of anything?

The artist got the idea of making this window from a lot of different places.

Verburg made the window design after she saw a church floor in Rome that was created hundreds of years ago. Many times, artists get ideas from the art made in the past or in far-away countries. For example, Verburg liked the pastel colors used by some stained-glass designers from the 1930s and put those colors in her design. During this same time period, artists like Frank Lloyd Wright used patterns in their designs for glass.

To see stained-glass windows by Frank Lloyd Wright, click here.