Category: Issue 142
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News from the Stained Glass Museum
SGM Collections now on ART UK One hundred objects from The Stained Glass Museum’s unique collection of art are now represented on Art UK, a unique online resource featuring public art collections from across the UK. Explore here. (Fig. 1). As we launched the collection in November 2022, we also shared our first ‘story’ entitled ‘Mary…
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News from Australia
Beverley Sherry has been in touch to advise fellow Vidimus readers that the entire proceedings of the conference, GLASS: Vision Reflection Imagination, Australia’s contribution to the International Year of Glass (2022), have now been video recorded. The Conference Program is here and the recordings here. Her own contribution, the 2022 William Montgomery Annual Lecture, entitled ‘Australia’s’ Hidden Windows’,…
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The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire
Vidimus has been alerted to a new publication from Logaston Press, Robert Walker’s The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire. The book will be reviewed in the May issue of Vidimus, but in the meantime, readers may take advantage of a discount code when ordering online from the Logaston website, where they can also see…
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The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey, by Isabelle Lecocq and Yvette Vanden Bemden, with Keith Barley, Alison Gilchrist, Marie Groll, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, John McNeill, and Joseph Spooner. Corpus Vitrearum Great Britain, Volume VII.
Hardback, 624 pp, approx. 650 colour illustrations. (Oxford: Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2021), £160. ISBN 9780197267189. Reviewed by Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein, University of York This remarkable catalogue, the seventh in the Corpus Vitrearum series for Great Britain (Fig. 1), is the product of a close collaboration between the CVMA national committees…
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Richard Butler at Lincoln’s Inn Chapel: Some Technical Observations
This section is intended to enable authors to raise points of interest and related queries. If you would like to respond publicly to a note or query, or to submit your own, please email editor@vidimus.org Introduction The period up to the outbreak of the Civil War witnessed a revived interest in figural and narrative schemes of…
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Michael Archer (1936-2022)
The death of Michael Archer (Fig. 1) on 27 June 2022, at the age of 85, has deprived the stained glass community of an elder statesman. Upon joining the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1963, it was part of his job to care for the national collection of…