Author Archives: ltempest
Becket 2020
The year 2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the murder of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Images of this event, scenes from his wider life and, most famously, depictions of miracles said to have occurred at his tomb, appeared … Continue reading
Frederick Preedy Remembered
2020 also sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Preedy (1820-1898), a prolific nineteenth-century stained glass designer and church architect who is thought to have been responsible for about four hundred figurative windows over a thirty-four year period. … Continue reading
Exhibition: Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art
An exciting exhibition currently running at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, USA, focuses on how one of the three “Magi from the East” was depicted in European medieval and renaissance art. As windows across England and continental Europe frequently … Continue reading
Glaziers and the Reformation in England: New Discoveries
An article by Hugh Willmott, Senior Lecturer in European Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, in the latest issue of Church Archaeology (See Further Reading) examines the physical evidence for the removal of medieval stained glass from Britain’s monasteries after … Continue reading
New Curator of Medieval Art at The Cleveland Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, USA, has appointed Dr Gerhard Lutz as its incoming Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, filling an important post left vacant by the retirement of Stephen Fliegel last May. Since 2002 Dr … Continue reading
Selling Exhibition of Medieval Art in New York
The Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York is displaying a panel of German renaissance stained glass in a selling exhibition at its New York gallery, 25 January – 7 March 2020. Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art in Europe is in association … Continue reading
In Memoriam Prof. Paul Crossley (1945-2019)
Vidimus is very sad to report the recent passing of Prof. Paul Crossley. Prof. Crossley was an eminent historian of medieval architecture and art in its broadest sense, both in-ternational in scope, with a particular thirst for Polish Gothic architecture, … Continue reading
His colourful materials: University of York acquires 18th-Century stained glass painter’s notebook
The University of York has acquired a notebook belonging to the celebrated glass artist William Peckitt (1731-95) (Fig. 1) shedding new light on his early career as an artist. The book (Fig. 2) appears to chronicle a teenage William Peckitt … Continue reading
Bardwell Church: Vital Restoration Underway
The late medieval parish church at Bardwell (Suffolk) is undergoing an urgent programme of restoration work, to combat the effects of water leaks and crumbling masonry. Fundraising, beginning in 2017, has raised more than a quarter of a million pounds … Continue reading
£800,000 Stained Glass Restoration Project at Long Melford
The late fifteenth-century stained glass at Long Melford parish church has long been recognised as one of the most splendid schemes to have survived from late medieval England. Best-known, for its extensive sequence of so-called ‘donor’ figures depicting various relations … Continue reading
