Category: Issue 151
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Henry Holiday: His Stained Glass Windows for Gilded-Age New York
by George B. Bryant, hardback, 328pp (Lund Humphries, London 2023), £70, ISBN 9781848225602 Reviewed by Dr Marie Groll, The York Glaziers Trust Winner of the Victorian Society of New York’s book award in 2023, this long awaited and much needed publication (Fig. 1) amasses a wealth of archival and photographic material into a formidable monograph…
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Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Edited by Karen Livingstone. Hardback, 287pp, 290 colour illustrations (Thames & Hudson Ltd, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2024), £35. ISBN 9780500480731. Reviewed by Sarah Lear, University of York This beautiful book, lavishly illustrated with exemplar work, is published jointly by the V&A Museum and Thames & Hudson and explores the often-neglected…
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Lost and Found
Dr Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Corpus Vitrearum, The Netherlands There is very little monumental stained glass from the first half of the sixteenth century in the Netherlands, but rather more from the second half, as documented in the most recent volume of the Dutch Corpus Vitrearum.1 The most famous example of late Renaissance glass is the…
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ICON Stained glass group conference 2025 – 3rd and 4th October 2025, Canterbury
Removed, Remodelled, Relocated: The Movement of Stained Glass from its Original Setting to Places New The ICON Stained Glass Group will be holding this year’s annual conference in the Canterbury Cathedral Precincts on the 3rd and 4th of October 2025. This in-person conference will bring together speakers from all over the world for two days of lectures…
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Arianne Isler-de Jongh (1925-2024)
On 1 October 2024, the community of stained glass scholarship lost a dear friend: Ariane Isler-de Jongh (b. 1 April 1925) passed away peacefully. Although visually incapacitated for many years from pursuing active research, through the 1990s and 2000s, Ariane had been the backbone of the Canadian Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum, instituting research files,…