Category: Issue 120
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
It has been a busy time over the last few months in the stained glass publishing world, with volumes on a range of artists and aspects of stained glass now available, including those briefly detailed below. We hope to bring reviews of some of these, and of Jasmine Allen’s Windows for the World: Nineteenth-Century Stained…
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Stained Glass window by David Hockney installed at Westminster Abbey
On October 2nd, a new stained-glass window designed by the artist David Hockney was dedicated by the Dean of Westminster, having recently been installed in the Abbey’s north transept. The so-called Queen’s Window commemorates the 65th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The design is based around a vibrantly-coloured image of…
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Birtsmorton Appeal: Restoration Begins
Previous issues Vidimus (issues 109 and 117) raised awareness, and reported on the success, of an urgent appeal to raise more than £25,000 needed to conserve and restore the beautiful late-medieval stained glass at Birtsmorton (Worcs.). On Sunday, 16th September, the church held its first Heritage Open Day to celebrate the start of the restoration…
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Horace Walpole’s Art Collection returns to Strawberry Hill House
More than 170 years after it was dispersed in a 24-day ‘sale of the century’ in 1842, the art collection of Horace Walpole is returning home. Following years of detective work, underpinned by Walpole’s extensive descriptions of his house and its contents, more than 200 works have been reunited with the spaces originally designed for…
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Stained Glass Museum, Ely: Upcoming Events
Thoughts are turning to Christmas at the Stained Glass Museum. Christmas Decorations: Copper Foiling Workshop Friday, 2nd November 2018, 10am – 5pm This workshop provides the perfect chance to create your own festive decorations, ready for the Christmas season. £90 per person For further details, see the Stained Glass Museum website. Ely Cathedral Christmas Gift…
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Worshipful Company of Glaziers announces The Stevens Competition 2019 in-cluding a new competition for young designers
The Glaziers’ Company is now inviting entrants to its prestigious annual Stevens Architectural Glass Competition. The competition, running since 1972, this year requires entrants to design a stained glass window to be installed in the patient reception and waiting area of the Proton Beam unit currently under construction at University College Hospital, part of the…
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The Great East Window of York Minster, a Decade of Discovery: 10th Anniversary Master Class Event at the University of York
This Autumn the University of York is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the launch, in collaboration with the York Glaziers Trust, of its MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management; and, ten years on, it will revisit the subject of its very first master-class: the conservation of the Great East Window of York Minster.…
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International Conference, “Le Verre à Tout Faire”: Château de Nyon, France
The University of Lausanne, the Château de Nyon and the Vitrocentre Romont will host an international conference on Friday, 2nd – Saturday 3rd, November. Hosted by the Château de Nyon, Switzerland, it will explore the themes of new glass technologies around 1900; glass and new building materials at the end of the nineteenth and the…
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Exhibition of Medieval Treasures from the Burrell Collection opens at Kelvingrove Art Gallery
A new exhibition, curated by Sir Paul Ruddock, former Chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, has opended at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. Burrell at Kelvingrove: Collecting Medieval Treasures draws on the outstanding collection of medieval sculpture, stained glass, metal, ivory and ceramic works brought together by Sir William Burrell (1861-1958),…
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Westminster Abbey’s Medieval Stained Glass: New Discoveries, Innovative Conservation and Splendid Display.
The opening of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey this Summer drew much attention in national media. The new galleries, located at the eastern end of the Abbey, some 52 feet above the Abbey floor, display a variety of previously unseen objects from the Abbey’s collections. Among these are displays from the surprise…