Category Archives: Issue 64
Happy Christmas!
Vidimus would like to wish all its readers a happy Christmas and very best wishes for the new year. Do stay in touch and send us your news and details of any exhibitions or lectures you think should be brought … Continue reading
85th Anniversary of the First Exhibition of Stained-Glass Photography
This month marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of the first photographic exhibition in England devoted to stained glass [Fig. 1]. It was held between 3rd and 27th December 1927 at the then offices of the Royal Photographic Society, in Russell Square, … Continue reading
New Light on Medieval Stained Glass
Vidimus readers are invited to the inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Freestone at University College London on 12 March 2013 [Fig. 1]. Together with colleagues based in York and Cardiff, Professor Freestone has recently completed a major programme of scientific … Continue reading
Orb of Glass
A giant metallic orb displaying five newly-conserved glass panels from the East Window of York Minster has been unveiled to visitors [Fig. 1]. The orb, which is 33ft (10m) wide and 10ft (3m) tall, forms a new gallery reflecting the … Continue reading
Places of Worship in the British Isles, 1350–1550
An interesting weekend course on ‘Places of Worship in the British Isles, 1350-1550’ will be held in Oxford between Friday 4 and Sunday 6 January 2013. The late middle ages saw the flowering of a distinctive religious culture expressed in … Continue reading
Mayer Windows Found
Three windows by Mayer & Co. of Munich, previously thought lost, have been found at Bolligen, near Berne in Switzerland. The glass was made for the three choir windows of the protestant church at Bolligen. They are not dated, but … Continue reading
Christmas Gift Ideas
Short of ideas for Christmas presents? Two recently published books by Vidimus’s own news editor, Roger Rosewell, might fit the bill perfectly. Stained Glass is a widely praised and beautifully illustrated eighty-eight page history of stained glass in England from … Continue reading
