Category: Issue 10
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Books of Interest
Books Accompanying Exhibitions Chagall le vitrail Die Glasmalerei: Couleur de l’Amour Chagall le vitrail Die Glasmalerei: Couleur de l’Amour. 112-page fully illustrated catalogue of the Vitromusée Romont exhibition. Essays by Nathalie Házan-Brunet, Meret Meyer, Valérie Sauterel, Viviènne Tarenne, and Stefan Trümpler. German and French text only. Martin Sonnabend (ed.), Albrecht Dürer. Die Druckgraphiken im Städel…
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Medieval and Modern at Doddiscombsleigh
Fig. 1. St Michael’s Church, Doddiscombsleigh, Devon. ©RR06.Few questions generate more controversy than the ‘restoration’ of medieval glass, especially when the evidence for new insertions seems unclear, if not wholly speculative. The fifteenth-century windows at St Michael’s Church, Doddiscombsleigh (Devon, fig. 1), are a particular case in point. Admired by many including Pevsner who described…
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The Conversion of St Helen: south aisle (sVI), church of St Michael and All Saints, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
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 institutions for which it was made. The selected pieces…
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News
Art of Light A ground-breaking exhibition that brings together some of the finest examples of German stained glass from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and puts them alongside a selection of National Gallery paintings from the same period and the same regions of Germany will be on show at the National Gallery in London from…