Category: Issue 101
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Corpus Vitrearum International: 28th Colloquium, in Troyes
Emma Woolfrey reports. The 28th Colloquium of the Corpus Vitreaum International was hosted by the French CVMA in Troyes on 4–8 July 2016. Troyes, often referred to as the ‘sacred city of stained glass’ (‘ville sainte du vitrail’), provided an ideal location for colleagues and friends within the Corpus to come together to present and…
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Window on a Parish: Conference Review
By Megan Stacey On the 25 June, the bustling market town of Ludlow was filled with stained-glass and heritage professionals from near and far, as well as local enthusiasts, for a one-day conference, ‘Window on a Parish: The Stained Glass of St Laurence, Ludlow’. Sometimes known as the ‘Cathedral of the Marches’, the Church of…
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New Volume Published. Ars Vitrea: Collected Writings on Mediaeval Stained Glass
Lech Kalinowski (d. 2004) was one of the most eminent art historians in Poland in the twentieth century. He was a specialist in mediaeval and Renaissance art, and his scholarly interests concentrated on iconology. He began work on the Polish volume of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi in 1958 and for many years was the…
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Exhibition: The Splendour of Light – Christopher Webb and the Windows of St Lawrence Jewry
An exhibition on Christopher Webb (1886–1966), a well-known and popular stained-glass artist of the mid-20th century, will be held at St Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall Yard, London, 4–28 October 2016 . The windows at St Lawrence Jewry made up the largest of his schemes and in many respects represented a culmination of his prolific career in…
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Icon Stained-Glass Group AGM and Conference 2016, Canterbury, 1–3 September 2016
A reminder that booking for this year’s Icon stained-glass group AGM and conference is now open, and that proposals for papers are still being accepted. The theme of the conference is ‘Disaster! Management, Recovery, Reconstruction, Opportunities’, and there will be papers, an opportunity to visit the Canterbury conservation studio, and site visits to view glass…
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The Hand of the Painter? Understanding Medieval Glass-painting Workshop Organization through Scientific Analysis
Laura Ware Adlington Introduction Medieval sources, such as Theophilus Presbyter’s De Diversis Artibus provide information about the tools and technological steps involved in both glass-making and the making of stained-glass windows (see On Divers Arts; Jackson and Smedley 2008 and other works; and Fig. 1). Yet our knowledge about the organization of artistic production within…