Category: Issue 149
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The Stained Glass Museum celebrates a major redisplay
The Stained Glass Museum is delighted to have reopened its doors after a major redisplay of its 20th and 21st century collections. More works than ever before are now on display in the museum’s permanent gallery, located in the south triforium of Ely Cathedral. As part of the redisplay, over a third of the museum’s…
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Catalan stained glass
We alert Vidimus readers to the availability of three new publications on Catalan stained glass: Sílvia Cañellas Martinez, El Vitrall de la Fira del Vidre del Born, concerning a stained glass window of 1943 following a design that had been intended for a tapestry still in existence in the Barcelona City Hall. The book, written…
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Peter Cormack, Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass Artist, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2024, 376 pp., 300 illustrations, most in colour, £60, ISBN 978 0 300 27232 1.
Reviewed by Dr Jasmine Allen, The Stained Glass Museum, Ely Peter Cormack brings his scholarly rigor and in-depth understanding of stained glass materials and techniques to this comprehensive account of the life and work of American stained glass artist Charles J. Connick (1875-1945). Meticulously researched by the author, Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass…
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Brian Sprakes, The Medieval Stained Glass of West Yorkshire, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (Great Britain), Summary Catalogue 10. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2023. Hardback, 488 pages, colour illustrations. £150. ISBN 9780197267097
Reviewed by Dr Katie Harrison, University of York This volume, which is the tenth summary catalogue published by the British Corpus Vitrearum, records both extant and lost medieval glass in the modern county of West Yorkshire (Fig. 1). Following the established format of CVMA summary catalogues, the volume opens with an introduction, which outlines key…
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Adolfo Winternitz and the Atelier Chiara: An example of international artistic collaboration (Part I)
Dr Andrea Araos, Centro Latinoamericano del Vitral This two-part article provides an overview of the work of one of the most important creators of religious art in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century, the Austro-Peruvian painter Adolfo Winternitz (1906-1993). His stained glass windows were made by the famous Chiara workshop in…