Author: Carlotta Cammelli
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ICON Stained Glass Conference 2026
Save the Date, Call for papers and student bursaries The Institute of Conservation (ICON) Stained Glass Committee has recently announced the date for their annual conference, to be held in York on 10th and 11th October 2026. This year the conference will look to the future, considering how the field of stained glass conservation may…
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In Memoriam: Meredith Parsons Lillich (1932–2026)
Meredith Parsons Lillich, eminent scholar of medieval stained glass, was professor emerita at Syracuse University, where she taught for forty years (Figs. 1-2). A founder of the United States Corpus Vitrearum, she was greatly beloved and highly esteemed by her American Corpus colleagues. She authored the CV volume Stained Glass Before 1700 in Upstate New…
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A request for Information
Vidimus reader Ron Fry (ronf2404@gmail.com), living in Canada, is the great-great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), the renowned Quaker philanthropist and reformer. Ron is pursuing images of his ancestor in stained glass and so far has found eight (including: All Saints, Cambridge; All Saints, High Wycombe; St Mark’s Camberwell, St Olave, Hart Street, London and the…
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A New Online Resource for William Peckitt studies
In 2019 the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, assisted by the Terry Trust, York Glaziers Trust and the Friends of the Library and Archive, acquired the personal notebook of the fifteen-year old William Peckitt (1731-95) who was to become York’s most celebrated glass-painter of the eighteenth century (https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2019/research/university-acquires-stained-glass-painter-notebook/). The hand-sewn notebook,…
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St Bernard and the Cistercians in the St William Window at York Minster
Professor Christopher Norton, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York The St William Window occupies a prominent position in York Minster overlooking the site of the high altar, where relics of the twelfth-century archbishop-saint were kept in the Middle Ages. Completed in about 1415, it was the gift of Beatrice de Roos, a wealthy widow…
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Günther Buchinger and Christina Wais-Wolf, Die mittelalterlichen Glasgemälde in der Steiermark, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi Austria, vol. VI, parts 1 and 2. Studien Verlag, Innsbruck, 2024. Part 1, 472 pages, part 2, 480 pages. Each volume Euros 128. ISBN: 978-3-7065-6283-6 (part 1), 978-3-7065-6282-9 (part 2).
Reviewed by David King, Corpus Vitrearum (Great Britain) These two books, together forming volume six of the Austrian Corpus Vitrearum, are devoted to the medieval stained glass of Styria in Austria, prepared with the collaboration of Elisabeth Oberhaidacher-Herzig and using the preparatory work of Ernst Bacher, Eva Frodl-Kraft and Elisabeth Oberhaidacher-Herzig. Two further volumes are…
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The Stained Glass Museum Achieves National Recognition of Excellence
We are delighted to share with Vidimus readers the news that the Stained Glass Museum in Ely, Cambridgeshire, has been awarded Designated Status by Arts Council England, placing it among a select group of institutions whose collections are recognised as being of national significance. This prestigious accolade celebrates the exceptional range, quality, and importance of the museum’s collection, which spans…
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Cultural assets rescued: An archive of key records for German stained glass production from the 19th and 20th centuries
The Binsfeld Werkstätten für Glasgestaltung, Trier (1882-2025) Anja Ostrowitzki, Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz In June 2025, the stained glass company Binsfeld in Trier, founded in 1882, closed its doors. It was one of the most important stained glass workshops in Germany. While specialising in church windows, it also supplied secular buildings, such as residential buildings, hotels, banks…
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Stained glass in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: An Overview
Michael Burger, Corpus Vitrearum Deutschland The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, located between France, Belgium and Germany (Fig. 1), was not a member of the international the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi / Corpus Vitrearum for a long time. Believing there to be no medieval or early modern stained glass windows there, the country’s admission to the…
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Conference Report: University of Münster Autumn School
Modern Stained Glass – Metadata – AI Maximilian Berkel, University of Münster From 16 to 18 September 2025, the University of Münster’s Arbeitsstelle für Christliche Bildtheorie, theologische Ästhetik und Bilddidaktik (ACHRIBI, the Centre for Christian Image Theory, the Aesthetics of Theology, and Image Didactics) hosted an interdisciplinary conference on modern stained glass and the possibilities…