Category: Issue 17
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Books
Just published English Stained Glass, published by Thames & Hudson, 2008, 128 pages, 200 colour illustrations Others Rose Windows, published by Thames & Hudson, 1979, 144 pages, 141 illustrations, 59 in colour. A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain, published by Michael Joseph, 1985, 280 pages, over 100 illustrations Six Days: The Story…
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Recoloured Roundels?
In January, Vidimus reported on Silver Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution in Flanders, Volume 1: The Province of Antwerp. The first in a planned series by art historian Cees Berserik and glass-restoration specialist Professor Joost Caen, the book highlights a fascinating branch of small-scale glass-painting that flourished in the Low Countries,…
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St Thomas Receiving the Virgin Mary’s Girdle at her Assumption
St Thomas Receiving the Virgin Mary’s Girdle at her AssumptionChurch of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin, Beckley, Oxfordshire; 1325–50; h 0.56m, w 0.46m. This quadrilobed tracery light is but half a meter square, yet speaks volumes about the practice of religion at the parish church of Beckley, Oxfordshire, in the first half of…
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News
New Digital-Publication Initiative by the CVMA (GB) The CVMA of Great Britain has launched its digital publication programme, following a period of intensive collaboration with the Centre for Computing and the Humanities at King’s College, London. If you visit the CVMA’s website and click on ‘Publications’, you will have the option of visiting the digital…