Category: Issue 130
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Prof. Paul Crossley: a Celebration of his Life
On Saturday, 14th March, the Courtauld Institute of Art will host a celebration of the life of the much-loved late Professor Paul Crossley. This will take place between 3.30 and 5.30pm at the Courtauld’s Vernon Square address, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW. All are welcome.
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Becket 2020
The year 2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the murder of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Images of this event, scenes from his wider life and, most famously, depictions of miracles said to have occurred at his tomb, appeared in stained glass windows in England and elsewhere in Europe. From the 3rd issue of…
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Frederick Preedy Remembered
2020 also sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Preedy (1820-1898), a prolific nineteenth-century stained glass designer and church architect who is thought to have been responsible for about four hundred figurative windows over a thirty-four year period. Major commissions included work in Worcester Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral and Ely Cathedral. Preedy…
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Exhibition: Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art
An exciting exhibition currently running at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, USA, focuses on how one of the three “Magi from the East” was depicted in European medieval and renaissance art. As windows across England and continental Europe frequently included images of the three magi in the Middle Ages, usually in the context, of…
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Glaziers and the Reformation in England: New Discoveries
An article by Hugh Willmott, Senior Lecturer in European Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, in the latest issue of Church Archaeology (See Further Reading) examines the physical evidence for the removal of medieval stained glass from Britain’s monasteries after their dissolution in the 1530s/40. [Fig 1] Recent studies have shown that this was often…
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New Curator of Medieval Art at The Cleveland Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, USA, has appointed Dr Gerhard Lutz as its incoming Robert P. Bergman Curator of Medieval Art, filling an important post left vacant by the retirement of Stephen Fliegel last May. Since 2002 Dr Lutz has been deputy head at the Dommuseum in Hildesheim, Germany, where he curated numerous…
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Selling Exhibition of Medieval Art in New York
The Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York is displaying a panel of German renaissance stained glass in a selling exhibition at its New York gallery, 25 January – 7 March 2020. Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art in Europe is in association with the London gallery of Sam Fogg. The German panel depicts Saints Margaret and Elizabeth…
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William Morris at Middleton Cheney: The Stained Glass in All Saints Church
By Richard Wheeler, David Thompson, Brian Goodey, and Roger Bellamy. Paperback, 96 pages, 171 x 242 x 7mm, numerous colour illus, Fircone Books Ltd, 2019, ISBN10 1907700099, £10. All Saints Church, Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, includes a magnificent set of windows made by the William Morris workshop. The artists involved read like a roll-call of the…
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Designers, Glaziers and the Process of Making Stained Glass Windows in 14th-and 15th-Century Florence
Dr Nancy Thompson is a Professor of Art History at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minneapolis, USA. This month’s From the Archives page showcases an article written by Professor Thompson and published in the Journal of Glass Studies, Volume 56, 2014, pages 237-251. [Fig. 1] ‘Designers, Glaziers, and the Process of Making Stained Glass Windows…
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Bernard Rackham: A Bibliography of His Works
In our last issue, we were treated to a detailed and lively account of the life of the pioneering stained glass scholar, Bernard Rackham (Vidimus 129). This month, Roger Rosewell provides us with a full bibliography of Rackham’s published writings, books, articles and reviews, to allow those of us whose appetite has been whetted to…