Category: Issue 34
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Books
Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages. Edited by Janet T. Marquardt and Alyce A. Jordan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009, hardback, 389 pages, £39.99 This book presents sixteen papers, given at conferences in 2004 and 2006, concerned with how people in different periods…
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Discovering Pre-1700 Stained Glass in South Wales
Compared to England very little has been published about medieval and renaissance stained glass in South Wales – the traditional counties of Monmouthshire (Gwent), Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. This month Vidimus is delighted to rectify those omissions by publishing Andrew Renton’s groundbreaking survey of an area that he knows well. It will be an invaluable…
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Strawberry Hill Forever: The Restoration of a ‘Rampant Lion’
This month’s panel is probably the oldest piece of stained glass that was bought by the eighteenth-century collector Horace Walpole and installed in his ‘ little Gothic castle’ at Strawberry Hill in south west London sometime between 1747 and his death in 1797. It has been chosen to illustrate some of the problems facing conservators…
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News
Sensational Discovery of ‘Lost’ Glass from Steinfeld Abbey Four panels of extremely important Renaissance stained glass dating from c. 1530–1542 from the cloisters of the Premonstratensian abbey of Steinfeld in the Eifel region of Germany, previously thought lost, have been found in a small church in south Wales. The discovery was made by Vidimus…