Category Archives: Issue 65
Restoring the Roundels at Ickworth
Geoffrey Lane reports. Work is under way to restore St Mary’s Church at Ickworth, Suffolk, including its fine collection of Netherlandish roundels. The church stands in the grounds of Ickworth Hall, ancestral home of the Hervey family, but unlike the … Continue reading
Corpus Vitrearum Volume Awarded Top Prize
The fourth volume in the Dutch Corpus Vitrearum series, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman’s monumental Stained Glass in the Netherlands before 1795 (Amsterdam, 2011), has been awarded the Mr. J.W. Frederiksprijs for 2012, for the best publication on the applied arts in … Continue reading
‘Charity’ Window Recreated
Barley Studio has recreated a window destroyed during the Second World War for Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. The 1830 window, by William Collins of the Strand, was in turn based on the figure of Charity in the … Continue reading
New Light on Medieval Stained Glass Reminder
Vidimus readers are invited to the inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Freestone at University College London on 12 March 2013. Together with colleagues based in York and Cardiff, Professor Freestone has recently completed a major programme of scientific analysis of … Continue reading
Society of Glass Technology Conference
The annual conference of the Society of Glass Technology will be held at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, 11–13 September. As usual, the conference will include sessions on the art and history of stained glass. A call for papers … Continue reading
