Category: Issue 04
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Just Published
The Buildings of England: Shropshire, by John Newman and Nicolas Pevsner A revised and much-expanded version of Pevsner’s Shropshire has been published by Yale University Press as part of the Buildings of England series. The new version supersedes the original 1958 edition and includes good accounts of the medieval glass at St Mary’s Shrewsbury and…
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New Discoveries at one of England’s Best-known Monuments
A REPORT FROM GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL Gloucester Cathedral is this year commemorating the 700th anniversary of the accession of King Edward II in 1307. Twenty years later, in 1327, he was buried here, in what was then the Benedictine abbey of St Peter. The fine, shrine-like tomb is now in need of significant conservation, and a…
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St Michael Weighing a Soul
Chancel east window, St Michael’s church, Eaton Bishop (Herefs.) Each month, Vidimus will showcase a different panel from the wealth of Britain’s medieval stained glass. The panels will be chosen with the aim of providing, collectively, a sense of the great range of glass that survives, in terms of date, subject matter and the kinds…
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News
Stained Glass and Manuscripts at the Getty Museum Comparisons between stained glass and French manuscript illumination of the Middle Ages are explored in a new exhibition at the Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA. Running from 23 January to 15 April 2007, the exhibition examines 25 manuscripts and leaves from the museum’s collection…