For that matter, read Somaly Mam's terrific memoir, "The Road of Lost Innocence," which offers a luminous window into what these girls go through.
Golden rays of light emerge from the heavenly host and instead of fairy lights – which obviously did not exist in 1648 – a luminous window completes the dazzlement.
Have you ever seen a skyscraper and wondered what was going on behind all those luminous open windows?
One of his best-known pictures, "Colorado Springs, Colorado" (1968), is a straight-ahead shot of an ordinary ranch house whose front window frames the silhouette of a woman backlit by a luminous rear window.
We all admired the rose window over the entrance and the luminous, cobalt-blue windows in the east chapel, designed in 1974 by Marc Chagall.
Luminous stained-glass windows tint the interiors by day; at night iridescent art glass lanterns, hanging from leather straps looped through the teak and mahogany beams, glow softly.
The churches — Capitol Hill United was rebuilt on its original site in 1964, and Ebenezer is a cavernous late-19th-century church with luminous stained glass windows — sit on a well-heeled block on Capitol Hill, a place of brick row houses with wrought iron fences.
Its vaulted domes, 13th century nave, slender towering walls and luminous stained glass windows were models for the high Gothic style that inspired the architects of Notre Dame in Paris and other great abbeys and temples to the Christian God throughout Europe.
UNTIL he had them taken down, scrubbed and restored, Monsignor Ferdinando D. Berardi did not realize how luminous the stained glass windows in his church could be.
Several principal indices of discomfort glare have been proposed to quantify discomfort glare generated from small lighting sources (e.g., artificial lighting) and large luminous sources (e.g., windows) (Abraham, 2017).
