Category: Issue 29
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Books
Review Announcement Please note that the promised review of Four Modes of Seeing: Essays in Honour of Madeline Harrison Caviness will now appear in a later issue. The Choir Windows in St Mary’s church, Frankfurt-und-der-Oder Die Chorfenster der St. Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder), Forschungen und Beiträge zur Denkmalpflege im Land Brandenburg, Band 10. 294 pages,…
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Discovering the unknown: Penny Hebgin-Barnes and the Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire
Fig. 1. Penny Hebgin-Barnes in conversation.Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes studied the History of Art at Manchester University and wrote her D. Phil at York University on the medieval stained glass of Lincolnshire. This was subsequently published as The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, Corpus Vitrearum (Great Britain), Summary Catalogue 3, Oxford, 1996. She…
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Panel of Geometric Grisaille, c.1200–1250
Panel of geometric grisaille, c.1200-1250Description The term ‘grisaille’ derives from the French word for grey – gris – and describes the invariably monochrome effect of non-figurative decorative white glass. There are two main types of grisaille; geometrical designs which are primarily formed by their lead patterns, and organic types which have a painted pattern, such…
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News
Exclusive Offers on CVMA volumes To celebrate the publication of Penny Hebgin-Barnes’s superb study of The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire, we are delighted to announce that Vidimus readers will be able to purchase this latest CVMA volume at an unrepeatable 40% discount. [Fig. 1] Welcoming the book the CVMA (GB) Chairman, Sarah Brown, told…