Category: Issue 12
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Books of Interest
Susan Foister, Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained GlassSusan Foister, Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass. National Gallery Company, London; distributed by Yale University Press. 32 pp., 28 col. ills. ISBN 978 185709 348 3 525339. £4.95 from the National Gallery. This slim volume is published to accompany the exhibition of the same title…
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Features
Features Section Doubled This month we have doubled our Features section to bring you news of the re-opening of the D’Arcy Collection in Chicago, and to present the first part of a four-part history of the York Glaziers Trust (YGT). The internationally renowned YGT celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year. D’Arcy Stained Glass Collection Re-opens…
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Prince Arthur Kneeling in Prayer: north transept (window nVI), Great Malvern Priory (Worcs.)
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
Saving the Saints at Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalene A major fund-raising campaign has been launched by the parishioners of Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalene, near King’s Lynn, Norfolk, to help conserve the fascinating late medieval glass in their grade I-listed church (Fig. 1). Installed after the church had been rebuilt in the latter part of…