Category: Issue 36
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Books
Katerina’s Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music As Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun. Katerina’s Windows: Donation and Devotion, Art and Music As Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun by Corine Schleif and Volker Schier. Pennyslvania State University Press, 2009, 53 colour, 195 b/w illustrations, 4…
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Stained Glass in Medieval Art
Evidence for medieval glazing schemes traditionally comes from surviving windows, fragmentary remnants, archaeological discoveries and occasional documentary sources. However, there is also another sometimes overlooked ‘witness’: the testimony of contemporary artists who sometimes depicted stained glass in work such as panel paintings, manuscript miniatures, wall paintings, even tapestries. This month Vidimus introduces twelve examples from…
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The Warning to Sabbath Breakers from St Neot Church
Drawing of The Warning to Sabbath Breakers c.1824, St Neot, Cornwall.This month’s Panel of the Month is perhaps the only surviving representation of the Warning to Sabbath Breakers, or Sunday Christ, in stained glass anywhere in northern Europe. Before its discovery it was widely thought that this unusual subject was depicted only in wall paintings…
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News
‘Ancestors of Christ’ Windows at Canterbury Cathedral Removed for Safekeeping Over one hundred medieval stained glass panels have been removed from the south window of the south-west transept in Canterbury Cathedral for safekeeping, prior to the restoration of the stonework. Among them are 24 late 12th- and early 13th-century Old Testament figures, originally from…