Category: Issue 117
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York Minster’s Great East Window: The last panel returns
Sarah Brown, The York Glaziers Trust On 2 January 2018 the final panel in the Great East Window was formally returned to the Minster, concluding one of Europe’s largest stained-glass conservation projects of recent decades (fig. 1). Between 2011 and 2017 the York Glaziers Trust has been engaged in the conservation, restoration and protection of…
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Birtsmorton Appeal: An Update
In April 2017 (see Vidimus 109), we raised awareness of an urgent appeal to raise more than £25,000 needed to conserve the beautiful and nationally significant fourteenth-century window glass at the church of St Thomas of Canterbury at Birtsmorton (Worcs.). …………….. . We are delighted to report now of the success of that appeal, and…
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Keith New: British Modernist in Stained Glass by Diana Coulter and Robert Smith: Publication Discount and Book Launch
Further to last month’s pre-publication announcement of Diana Coulter and Robert Smith’s volume on Keith New: British Modernist in Stained Glass, we are happy to announce that this work is now available to order at a 10% discount until the end of February 2018. A book launch is also planned for All Hallows by the…
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Norwich Historic Churches Trust: 2018 Programme
The Norwich Historic Churches Trust’s Centre for Parish Church Studies (CPCS) has launched its programme of events for 2018. Established to explore all aspects of parish churches, including historical, social, archaeological, architectural and liturgical, on both local and national levels, the CPCS offers a series of day and weekend schools, weekly courses, tours and practical…
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University of York Spring Master Class
On Saturday, 3rd March, 2018, the University of York’s MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management will hold its Spring Master Class. Following the theme of Collectors and Collections, speakers will include Dr Ute Bed-narz (CVMA Potsdam), Anna Eavis (English Heritage), Dr Marie Grill (independent scholar), Dr Joseph Spooner (CVMA GB), and Dr Ivo…
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Stained Glass Museum: Temporary Closure
The Stained Glass Museum will be closed to the public from Monday 5th – Friday 30th March 2018 due to restoration work taking place to the south nave aisle.
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“Sainte-Chapelle Stained Glass” App: Secrets of the Stained Glass Unlocked
Fig.1. The spectacular and intricate stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris.Visitors to the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, can now view the chapel’s world-renowned stained glass windows in a dramatically new way, thanks to an app that allows the glass to be seen in greater detail than ever before and also explains the meaning behind each scene.…
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The Silver-Stained Roundels of Dirck Vellert, 1530-1540: an Artistic Response to New Urban Wealth in the early-16th Century Netherlands.
By Rachel Masters Carlisle The Courtauld Institute of Art and Florida State University Introduction By the end of the Middle Ages, a large market for small-scale stained glass had formed in response to new urban wealth. North of the Alps, silver-stained roundels took precedence, and production of such roundels reached its height (both in quantity…