Category: Issue 09
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Books of Interest
Just published The Image of St. Francis: Responses to Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century, by Rosalind Brooke. This book discusses the stained-glass windows in the Upper Basilica at Assisi, as part of a wider study of how St Francis presented himself to contemporary audiences as a preacher and aesthetic, and how he was portrayed in…
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Monkey Business in the Margins
York Minster, nXXV, detail of border. Thomas French, (C) Dean and Chapter, York MinsterTo coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum devoted to images of animals and mythical creatures in medieval manuscripts, Vidimus spoke to Dr Paul Hardwick, Senior Lecturer in English at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds, and a member of the…
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Christ Carrying the Cross to Calvary
East window, church of St Mary, Fairford, Gloucestershire (c.1500-1515) Each month, Vidimus show-cases a different panel from the wealth of medieval stained glass in England. The panels are chosen with the aim of providing, collectively, a sense of the great range of surviving window glass, in terms of date, subject matter and the kinds of…
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News
BSMGP Conference and Lecture Conference The autumn conference of the British Society of Master Glass Painters (BSMGP) offers a cornucopia of delights for stained glass lovers. Based at Lincoln University campus, the weekend will include visits to the cathedral workshop and the fifteenth-century Browne’s Hospital in Stamford, and excursions to Tattershall, Heydour and Carlton Scroop.…