Category: Issue 140
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ICON Stained Glass Group Meeting 2022 – 29th October 2022
The Stained Glass Group will be holding their Annual Meeting and AGM in person at the Artworker’s Guild, Queen Square, London. The programme will include a morning of presentations, with a short AGM prior to lunch, in the Hall. In the afternoon, there will be the opportunity to visit to the Chapel at Lincoln’s Inn…
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Reframing Stained Glass in the Nineteenth-Century British World: Culture, Aesthetics, Contexts. Edited by Kate Nicholl, Jasmine Allen and Gareth Atkins
19 – Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: Issue 30, 2020 Reviewed by Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable This special issue of the journal, edited by Kate Nichols, Jasmine Allen, and Gareth Atkins, takes the rich, but often ignored or overlooked, theme of nineteenth -century stained glass in the British world as its focus. Taking a…
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Corpus Vitrearum International: The 11th Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass
Ali Wysopal After a delay of two years, the 11th Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass was held this past July in Barcelona. Not only was the event a wonderful opportunity to connect with members of the stained-glass conservation community, this year’s Forum was significant as the first since 2004 to…
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The Burrell Collection
Lisa Reilly Glasgow’s renowned Burrell Collection reopened 29 March 2022 following closure for nearly 6 years. During this time John McAslan + Partners restored and modernised the 1983 landmark Barry Gasson site and building. In the words of the McAslan firm, the transformed building features ‘significant volumetric and layout interventions internally to create new learning…
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Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum on Display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Fall 2023
Michael W. Cothren During the 1920s and 1930s, Philadelphia lawyer, businessman, and political activist Raymond Pitcairn (1885–1966) gathered one of the largest and finest collections of medieval architectural arts in America. He did not set out to be a collector, nor did he initially see these works as a private collection. They were acquired to…
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Roland Sanfaçon, Emeritus, University Laval (26 July 1934 – 30 October 2021)
Like many French-Canadians of his generation, Roland Sanfaçon looked to France for his academic formation. After his undergraduate training at Université Laval in Quebec City, he went to France for his upper degrees, at the Université de Poitiers (1957–59) and the École Pratique des Hautes Études and the Sorbonne in Paris where he took a…
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Corpus Vitrearum International, 30th Colloquium, in Catalonia: The Concept and Fabrication of Stained Glass from the Middle Ages to the Art Nouveau
Report by Anya Heilpern The 30th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum was hosted by the Catalan Committee in Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès and Girona, between 4–7 July 2022. Originally planned for 2020, and postponed twice because of the pandemic, the colloquium was eagerly anticipated and turned out to be well worth the wait. …
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The First Black Jesus and Black New Testament Women Displayed in a Public Setting?
Hadley Arnold and Virginia Raguin A stained-glass window installed in 1878 in the former St. Mark’s Church, Warren, Rhode Island, USA, shows Christ engaged in conversation with several biblical women. All have dark skin. The window invites dialogue and interpretation. While the current stewards seek a permanent home for the window, they invite collaborators to…
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Vidimus Website Guides Grandson to Donate Family Treasure
Vidimus reader John David Hodder shares his personal experience of using the Corpus Vitrearum’s online resources to research a family treasure, identifying a long-overlooked silver-stained glass panel as the work of Netherlandish master Wouter Crabeth. Reflecting fondly on my first finding of the Vidimus website nearly a decade ago, it is with enduring gratitude that…
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Glaskunst im Museum. Kontextualisierung, Inszenierung und Storytelling, 5 November 2022, Historisches Museum Thurgau in association with the Vitrocentre, Romont
Venue: Historisches Museum ThurgauSchloss FrauenfeldRathausplatz 28500 FrauenfeldSwitzerland For more information, please visit https://historisches-museum.tg.ch