Category: Issue 141
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The Revd. Gordon Plumb 1942–2022
Gordon Plumb, who specialised in the photography of stained glass for over 30 years, and whose images have appeared in numerous Corpus Vitrearum publications at home and abroad, has died at the age of eighty. Born in Balsham in Cambridgeshire, his was a happy rural childhood in which the church played a large part. After…
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Bayerische Hofglasmalerei Gustav van Treeck, München
By Peter van Treeck, Elgin Vaassen et. al. Hardback, 368 pp, over 550 illustrations almost all in colour. (Wuppertal, Prometheus Publishers, 2020), €32/£27.73. ISBN 978-3-9814271-8-9 Reviewed by Professor Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross, Emeritus This is an outstanding example of a retrospective of a long-lived and highly productive studio in Munich. The first…
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Prophets, Apostles, and Saints in the side windows of Winchester College Chapel
David J. Critchley Introduction Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, following his founding of New College, Oxford, in 1379. The chapel was glazed by the workshop of Thomas of Oxford, and although we have records of the delivery of glass in 1393, frequent visits by glaziers are recorded…
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The True Colour of Stained Glass: Setting Standards for Photographic Imaging and Documentation using Digital Technologies
Nick Teed, MSc, ACR Introduction The recording of accurate information is the cornerstone of any conservation project on historic stained glass. As digital technology improves and expands, a wider and sometimes bewildering array of tools have become available to the conservator, and archival records created in the heritage sector are conforming to established guidelines, standards…
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Joan Vila Grau, 1932 – 2022
It was with great sadness that Vidimus learned of the death on 11 November of Catalonia’s most revered contemporary exponent of stained glass, entrusted since 1999 with the glazing of the cathedral of the Sagrada Família in his native Barcelona according to the intentions of its architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926).1 Between 1950 and 1955 Vila-Grau…