Category: Issue 147
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The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time. By Virginia Chieffo Raguin.
Hardback, 272pp, full-colour illustrations. (London: Reaktion Books, 2023), £30.00. ISBN 9781789147933. Reviewed by Susanna Wyse Jackson, York Glaziers Trust Presented as a series of case studies of iconic stained glass, this new publication by renowned stained glass scholar Professor Virginia Chieffo Raguin is a rich compendium. Wide-ranging, both chronologically and geographically, this lavishly illustrated book…
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Michael King
The death on April 30 has been announced of Michael King, glass-painter and conservator for the Norwich firm of G. King & Son. Michael was 87 and the elder son of Dennis King, who, with his father George King, founded the workshop in 1927. Michael studied at the Hornsey College of Art, followed by an…
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Four lost panels from the Romanesque glazing of St Patrokli in Soest, Westphalia
Michael Burger, Corpus Vitrearum Deutschland In January 1922, Wolfgang Fritz Volbach published an article about four glass paintings from St Patrokli’s Church in Soest, Westphalia, which a collector from Münster had acquired in Soest a few years earlier. They had subsequently ended up in unknown private ownership via the art trade (Fig. 1). 1 Their…