Author: Melissa Polkey
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Corpus Vitrearum International:
‘Ways of Seeing and Strategies of Visualization’, XXXI International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum and ‘Technology, Conservation and Restoration of Stained Glass’, XII International Forum on the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass. The 31st Colloquium and the 12th Forum were held at Erfurt and Naumburg cathedrals 15-19 July 2024 (Fig. 1). The…
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ICON Stained Glass Group Annual Conference and AGM – 26th October 2024
The ICON Stained Glass Group will be holding its conference and AGM at the University of Chester, in the Wheeler Building, on 26th October 2024. This year’s theme ‘Beyond the Whall’ will investigate the work of Christopher Whall’s pupils and later 20th-Century stained glass artists, exploring the innovations, pitfalls and solutions to problematic conservation issues relating…
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Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe
Vidimus readers are alerted to the availability of a new publication from Four Courts Press, bringing together selected writings of the late Nicola Gordon Bowe (1948–2018): Visualizing the Celtic Revival: The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe, edited by Róisín Kennedy Available to order online: www.fourcourtspress.ie
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Stories in Glass: A Guide to Medieval Stained Glass in Norfolk. Text by David King, photographs by Paul Harley. Hardback, 162pp, 224 full-colour illustrations. (Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press, 2024), £25.00. ISBN 9780718897277
Reviewed by Gemma Lees, University of York David King, the foremost expert on the medieval stained glass of Norfolk, has synthesised his life’s work into a succinct guide that has equal appeal as an introduction for newcomers and as a general reference book for those more familiar with stained glass. The guide explores the…
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The Strange Journey of Three Thirteenth-Century Medallions of Stained Glass from Paris to the Musée des Métiers d’art du Québec (MUMAQ)
Professor Claire Labrecque, University of Winnipeg and Corpus Vitrearum Canada In March 2023 I discovered in Montreal three 13th-century French stained-glass medallions previously unknown to stained glass scholarship. Research carried out since then has permitted an initial assessment of their history and their original appearance. While this note cannot answer all…
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The Conservation of Heat Damaged Micro-Cracked Stained Glass: A York Minster Case Study
Susanna Wyse Jackson MA, The York Glaziers Trust This article outlines an emerging approach to the conservation of heat damaged, micro-cracked stained glass. This has developed out of the conservation of York Minster’s window S5 (Fig. 1). The York Glaziers Trust (YGT) began work on this window in November 2023, under the direction…
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Bronwyn Hughes, Lights Everlasting: Australia’s Commemorative Stained Glass from the Boer War to Vietnam. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2023. Softback, 255 pp., 197 colour illustrations. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2023, A$79.95, ISBN: 9781922669827.
Reviewed by Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney The defining character of Lights Everlasting is that it is far more than an art book. Certainly, it documents hundreds of stained glass windows, assesses their artistic merits, examines their architectural contexts, and provides full details of the artists who designed the windows and the firms that manufactured…
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Michael Healy, 1873-1941: An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer. By David Caron. Hardback, 448pp, full-colour illustrations. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2023), €55.00/£50.00. ISBN 9781801510813.
Reviewed by Susanna Wyse Jackson, York Glaziers Trust Based on Dr David Caron’s doctoral research, Michael Healy, 1873-1941: An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer charts the life and work of a long-overlooked Irish stained-glass artist. Beginning with an exploration of the artist’s childhood in Dublin’s impoverished tenements, and his time at Dublin’s Metropolitan…
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‘The Grisaille and Heraldic Glass in the Chancel at Norbury Church, Derbyshire’, by John E. Titterton, FSA, FHS, in: The Coat of Arms: Annual Journal of the Heraldry Society, Series 4, Volume 6, Number 240, 2023, pp. 51-82. Reviewed by David King FSA, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Great Britain)
The glazing of the eight side windows of the chancel at Norbury in Derbyshire is one of the best-preserved and extensive displays of heraldic glass and grisaille in England, despite being in a humble parish church. The glass has been studied before, the most useful account being that of Peter Newton in his doctoral thesis…
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Winchester College Publication
Following David J Critchley’s article in issue 141, covering the side windows of Winchester College Chapel, we wanted to bring the attention of Vidimus readers to the recent booklet published for the college by Dr Sarah Griffin (former assistant curator, Winchester College) and Eleanor Townsend, which is now available online. The booklet presents the history of the 13th-century…