Category: Issue 106
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Dutch Corpus Volume IV Sold Out
In the September issue of Vidimus, an announcement was placed concerning the liquidation by the publisher of the remaining stock of my book, Stained glass in the Netherlands before 1795. As this two-volume overview of all stained glass in public buildings in the Netherlands was received well at the time of its publication in 2011,…
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Storm damage at Soisson Cathedral
Late in the evening of 12th January, a violent storm seriously damaged the magnificent west rose window of the cathedral of Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais at Soissons. Exceptionally strong gusts of winds tore the central oculus free from the window, shattering much of the glass, and leaving the remains suspended perilously from the broken tracery ‘petals’. This is…
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University of York Spring Master Class
The University of York MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management Spring Master Class will be held this year on Saturday, 4th March 2017. Organised in association with the Stained Glass Research School, the event is entitled, ‘Environmental Protective Glazing: Recent Projects and New Research’. Speakers will include, Keith Barley (Barley Studio), Nancy Georgi…
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Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Stained Glass – Call for Papers
The International Scientific Committee for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass has issued a call for papers for its 10th Forum, to be held in Cambridge, 3-5 September 2017. Organised in collaboration with the Society for Glass Technology and the Corpus Vitrearum, the forum is entitled, ‘Stained Glass: Art at the Surface. Creation,…
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Festival at The Stained Glass Centre, St Martin-cum-Gregory, York
Sunday, 29th January, 11am – 3pm. The Stained Glass Centre is taking part in this year’s York Residents’ Festival. The centre, in the church of St Martin-cum-Gregory, will be open on Sunday 29th January from 11am until 3pm. There will be demonstrations of glass painting and glazing, as well as a chance to try your…
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Stained Glass Museum Study Weekend: Student Bursary
Calling all students! Applications are now open for a student bursary place on the Stained Glass Museum’s Study Weekend in North East Wales and Chester (announced in last month’s Vidimus), to be held between 20th and 23rd April 2017. The bursary is generously funded by the Friends of The Stained Glass Museum, and the application…
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Further Training Awards from The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass 2017
The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass has announced that once again it will offer an Award for Excellence and two Ashton Hill Awards for the year 2017-18. The deadline for entry is Friday, 21st April 2017. These awards are training work placement awards for those within the first five years of completing…
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Lecture: The Medieval Glazing of Westminster Abbey: New Discoveries
Wednesday, 1st March 2017, 5.00pm Professor Richard Marks, of the University of Cambridge, and Laura Atkinson, from Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass Studio, will lecture on the remains of the abbey’s once magnificent, but now seriously depleted and little known, medieval stained glass. The lecture forms part of the British Archaeological Association’s programme of meetings, and…
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Glory, Azure and Gold: The Stained-Glass Windows of Thomas Denny
Fig.1. Glory, Azure and Gold.The second edition of this collaborative volume on the stained-glass art of Thomas Denny will be available from January 27th, 2017. Denny’s luminous windows are found in the cathedrals at Gloucester, Durham and Hereford, as well as in many churches and chapels across the UK. His distinctive style, drawing on his…
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Pious gift, medieval financial scandal or smart business move? : reinterpretation of a York Minster nave window
Dr David Reid When the nave of York Minster was rebuilt in the early fourteenth century a band window scheme was adopted for the clerestory, with two registers of coloured glass sandwiched between three of clear glass in geometric patterns. The lower coloured register is of heraldic glass and the upper of figurative subjects. It…