Category: Issue 138
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Baroque goes stained glass! Oil sketches for lost windows return to Antwerp.
The Phoebus Foundation’s “Behind the Scenes” exhibition is free to view in St Paul’s Church until 30 June 2022. The exhibition is accompanied by a new book: Stoning of St Paul and Scourging of St Paul: Designs by Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675) for a Series of Stained Glass Windows in St Paul’s Church in Antwerp.…
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Publication Notices
Les vitraux voyageurs. By Yvette Vanden Bemden. Paperback, ebook and PDF, 117 pp. and 20 colour plates. Académie royale de Belgique (L’Académie en poche series, vol. 144), Brussels, 2021, Paperback 7€, ISBN 978-2-8031-0812-1. Ebook and PDF 3.99€, available at https://academie-editions.be/catalogue/449-les-vitraux-voyageurs.html This small pocket-book is a brief survey of the ways in which stained-glass windows (and…
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Folia Historiae Artium. 17, Seria Nowa (Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, 2019). ISSN 0071-6723.
Review article by Jasmine Allen, Director and Curator of The Stained Glass Museum, Ely. The journal Folia Historiae Artium can be accessed free of charge here. This special issue of Folia Historiae Artium, journal of the Commission on Art History published by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kraków, focuses on 19th and…
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Jan Van Damme
23 April 1957 – 21 December 2021 It is with regret that we note the death of Jan Van Damme in December. Jan was an art historian and a much-appreciated member of the Flemish committee associated with the Belgian Corpus Vitrearum since 1998, when the committee was established. Jan was a co-author of the recent…
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Remembering Patrick Reyntiens OBE
In our last Vidimus, in November, we noted the death of Patrick Reyntiens on 25th October 2021. Reyntiens’ importance is commemorated more fully in a number of obituaries, some of which can be read without subscription at the following links: Guardian (Tanya Harrod) The Art Newspaper (Louis Jebb) Church Times (Kenneth Shenton) Vidimus readers may…
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News from the Stained Glass Museum
The announcement of an exciting new acquisition, plus a reminder of the upcoming study weekend. The Stained Glass Museum acquires a window designed by Wilhelmina Geddes (1887-1955) On 25th January 2022 The Stained Glass Museum successfully bid at auction to acquire the last window designed and cartooned by Irish artist Wilhelmina Geddes before her death…
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Feature
THE STAINED GLASS AT THE ELIZABETHAN HOUSE MUSEUM,4 SOUTH QUAY, GREAT YARMOUTH David King The museum has a varied collection of mainly foreign glass from the Netherlands, Germany and France, mostly dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A staircase window has an almost complete arrangement of roundels and other pieces with an early nineteenth…