Category: Issue 121
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Gothic Hall with Medieval Stained Glass discovered in Crusader Fortress
Renewed excavation at Montfort Castle, a Crusader fortress in modern northern Galilee, dating to the thirteenth century, has discovered a previously unknown, massive Gothic hall in which survives the remains of medieval grisaille-painted stained glass. These recent findings follow on from work in 2017 that first demonstrated the comparatively luxurious and wealthy lifestyle enjoyed by…
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: “Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance”
Stained glass designed and executed by Dirck Vellert (fig. 1) features in a new exhibition at the Met, running until June 23rd, 2019, that aims to transform perceptions of Northern Renaissance art. The collection of 63 carefully-selected works dating from the sixteenth century illustrate that art was appreciated, accessed and obtained across the entire social…
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Suffolk’s Stained Glass Rated Top in the Country by Church Tourism Website
Research by the church tourism website, explorechurches.org, has named Suffolk as the country’s best county for discovering stained glass. Analysis of 2,000 churches by The National Churches Trust, which runs the website, found that 72% of the county’s churches are home to stained glass by famous designers (or of particularly high quality or craftsmanship), and…
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Deadline approaching: Collaborative Doctoral Award Competition 2019, A Window onto the Medieval World: Illuminating the Role of the English Glass Industry in Glazing between AD 1100-1600.
Applications are invited for an AHRC fully-funded Ph.D studentship based in the Department of Archaeology at University of Sheffield (alongside Caroline Jackson), working closely with the Stained Glass Studies Research School at the University of York (alongside Sarah Brown), and including a specific laboratory placement with Historic England at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth (alongside Sarah…
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Horace Walpole’s Painted Glass Collection At Strawberry Hill House
‘I HAVE CARPENTERS TO DIRECT, PLASTERERS TO HURRY, PAPERMEN TO SCOLD, AND GLAZIERS TO HELP: THIS LAST IS MY GREATEST PLEASURE’ We reported in our news items last month the return to Strawberry Hill House of more than 200 items from Horace Walpole’s collection of art and artefacts for display in what promises to be…
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English Glass Exported: Windows by Thomas William Camm at the Güell Palace, Barcelona
Dr. Nuria Gil (Art historian at the Universitat de Barcelona and independent scholar focusing on late 19th- and early 20th-century stained glass; her PhD considered the work of Antoni Rigault. A member of the CVMA Catalonia, Nuria works as an assessor at the Palau Güell, Hospital de Sant Pau, and Barcelona Cathedral and is Scientific…