Category: Issue 145
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Professor Michael Kauffmann FBA (1931–2023)
The former chair of the British Corpus Vitrearum Michael Kauffmann FBA has died at the age of 92. Michael served for an eventful decade in the history of the project, succeeding David Wilson FBA, and stepping down in 2001. His service to the Corpus was just one of many contributions to national cultural life,…
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Dr Sandra L. Tatman 1945–2023
Vidimus was sorry to learn of the loss to Parkinson’s Disease of Dr Sandra L. Tatman, former executive director of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Dr Tatman held a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Delaware and both an M.L.S. and M.A. in Art History and Library Science from the University of Oregon. She…
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CVMA International colloquium and forum 2024
The National Committee of the German Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi gives Vidimus readers advance notification of the next international colloquium and forum, to be held in Erfurt and Naumburg 15–19 July 2024. The introduction to the theme of the meetings, together with the programme for both colloquium and forum can be found on the website…
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ARCOVE – Carta de Najera sobre Vidrieras emplomadas
Fernando Cortes Pizano, President of ARCOVE, writes ‘we have recently launched the so called ‘Carta de Najera sobre Vidrieras emplomadas’ (Charter of Najera on leaded stained-glass windows). This is a very important document for the stained-glass community in Spain and, by extension, for all Spanish-speaking countries. At this point the Charter is only in Spanish,…
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Bronwyn Hughes, Lights Everlasting: Australia’s Commemorative Stained Glass from the Boer War to Vietnam. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2023. Softback, 255 pp., 197 colour illustrations. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2023, A$79.95, ISBN: 9781922669827.
Reviewed by Beverley Sherry, University of Sydney The defining character of Lights Everlasting is that it is far more than an art book. Certainly, it documents hundreds of stained glass windows, assesses their artistic merits, examines their architectural contexts, and provides full details of the artists who designed the windows and the firms that manufactured…
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Michael Healy, 1873-1941: An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer. By David Caron. Hardback, 448pp, full-colour illustrations. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2023), €55.00/£50.00. ISBN 9781801510813.
Reviewed by Susanna Wyse Jackson, York Glaziers Trust Based on Dr David Caron’s doctoral research, Michael Healy, 1873-1941: An Túr Gloine’s Stained Glass Pioneer charts the life and work of a long-overlooked Irish stained-glass artist. Beginning with an exploration of the artist’s childhood in Dublin’s impoverished tenements, and his time at Dublin’s Metropolitan…
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‘The Grisaille and Heraldic Glass in the Chancel at Norbury Church, Derbyshire’, by John E. Titterton, FSA, FHS, in: The Coat of Arms: Annual Journal of the Heraldry Society, Series 4, Volume 6, Number 240, 2023, pp. 51-82. Reviewed by David King FSA, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Great Britain)
The glazing of the eight side windows of the chancel at Norbury in Derbyshire is one of the best-preserved and extensive displays of heraldic glass and grisaille in England, despite being in a humble parish church. The glass has been studied before, the most useful account being that of Peter Newton in his doctoral thesis…
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Winchester College Publication
Following David J Critchley’s article in issue 141, covering the side windows of Winchester College Chapel, we wanted to bring the attention of Vidimus readers to the recent booklet published for the college by Dr Sarah Griffin (former assistant curator, Winchester College) and Eleanor Townsend, which is now available online. The booklet presents the history of the 13th-century…
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The Jesse Window in New College Chapel, Oxford
By David J Critchley Introduction New College was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, in 1379. The foundation stone was laid on 5th March 1380, and the College moved into the buildings on 14th April 1386. Little is known about the chronology of the building of the Chapel and the completion of its…