Category: Issue 126
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Relief at Notre Dame
Despite the loss of its great medieval roof, preliminary surveys suggest that none of the thirteenth-century glass in the three great rose windows of Notre Dame Cathedral has suffered irreparable damage following the terrible fire in Paris on April 15th. The first of these windows was made c. 1220. It is the west facade and…
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New Director at the Vitrocentre and Vitromusée, Romont
On June 1st, Francine Giese will take up the post of director of the Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont, due to the retirement of current director, Stefan Trümpler. With a background in Art History, Classical Archaeology and Ancient Near East Philogy, she is currently a Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of…
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Stained Glass Museum Autumn Lecture Series
The Stained Glass Museum, Ely, has announced details of its lecture series for Autumn 2019. The series will focus on the concept of the ‘new’ in relation to stained glass: new commissions, new discoveries of medieval glass, and new ways of looking at the medium. Wednesday, 2nd October Mid-Century Modernity: New Ways of Looking at…
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CVMA Joins the Medieval Academy of America
The website of the CVMA (GB), part of the international research project dedicated to the recording and publishing of all medieval stained glass, has been approved for inclusion in the Medieval Academy of America’s database of Medieval Digital Resources http://mdr-maa.org. Founded in 1925, the Academy is the largest organisation in the United States aiming to…
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REMINDER: BSMGP Discussion Day 2019: ‘Splendid yet Intimate – Stained Glass for House and Home’
Friday, 31st May, 2019 from 10.00am to 4.30pm Each year the BSMGP holds a discussion day aimed at students and stained glass artists in the early stages of their career, although established artists and interested amateurs are also welcome. This May, the day will take as its theme, ‘Splendid yet Intimate – Stained Glass for…
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REMINDER: BSMGP Summer Lecture 2019
Friday, 14th June 2019 at 6.15pm The British Society of Master Glass Painters’ (BSMGP) Summer lecture will be given this year by the award-winning architectural glass art specialist, Martin Donlin, who will share his Reflections on 30 years of Glass. These three decades have seen Martin take on projects large and small, sacred and secular,…
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In the vineyard of the Lord
Welcome to our ongoing series which spotlights an article or university thesis about medieval and renaissance stained glass which is now available on-line. This month we provide a link to a fascinating article by Dr Veronika Decker from the Institute for Art in Vienna, about two late fourteenth-century stained glass schemes featuring images of the…
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Places of Worship in Britain and Ireland 1350 – 1550
Edited by P. S. Barnwell, Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2019, h/b, 274 pp, numerous illustrations, £45. The Great Pestilence of 1348-9 (now known as the Black Death) and subsequent regular outbreaks of plague, as in 1361-62 and 1369, had devastating effects on Britain and other afflicted countries. Up to 65 per cent of the UK population…
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Indelible Images: Joubert’s Patent Enamel Pictures on Glass
By Emily Yates MA, Stained Glass Conservator at Naumburg Cathedral, Germany eypconservation@gmail.com The window dedicated to the memory of Augusta Upcher in the Parish Church of All Saints in Upper Sheringham, Norfolk, is the only document-ed example of stained glass, anywhere in the world, incorporating Jean Ferdinand Joubert de la Ferté’s photo-mechanical transfer method. Pa-tented…