Category: Issue 44
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Name that Roundel! Solution
This month’s mystery roundel shows the Old Testament story of the ‘Death of Jezebel’ or ‘Jezebel thrown to the dogs’. According to the Book of Kings 3 and 4, Jezebel was the daughter of Ethbaal, a king of the Sidonians, and the scheming wife of Achab, a Jewish king who worshipped the false God Baal.…
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Antoine de Pise. L’art du vitrail vers 1400
Claudine Lautier and Dany Sandron: Antoine de Pise. L’art du vitrail vers 1400 (Corpus Vitrearum France, Études VIII), Paris: Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques 2008, pp. 383, ISBN 978-2-7355-0659-0, EUR 96.00. In April 2008 (Vidimus 17), we included a brief notice about the publication of this book. In view of the importance…
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Swiss Stained Glass Collection at Saltwood Castle
Previously unpublished panels of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Swiss stained glass have been discovered at Saltwood castle, in Kent. The panels were acquired by the art historian and broadcaster Kenneth [Lord] Clark of Saltwood (1903–83), who bought the castle in 1955. His son and heir was the Conservative MP and best-selling diarist Alan Clark (1928–1999). The…
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Defenders of the Realm at Poole Hall, Cheshire
This month’s panel was created during the often overlooked period of English glass painting between the Reformation and the Gothic revival. It is something of a departure from previous panels: not only is it composite and post-medieval, but it has no religious content or association. Although the armorial element is typical of its period,…
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News
Superb CVMA Catalogue of Stained Glass in Cheshire Published Penny Hebgin-Barnes’ definitive study for the CVMA (GB) of pre-Gothic Revival stained glass in the northern British county of Cheshire has just been published. The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire catalogues the glass found at fifty sites in the county, mostly churches, but…
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Catalogue of Stained Glass in Cheshire
Penny Hebgin-Barnes’ definitive study for the CVMA (GB) of pre-Gothic Revival stained glass in the northern British county of Cheshire has just been published. The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire catalogues the glass found at fifty sites in the county, mostly churches, but also including domestic residences and other buildings. It has 642 pages and…
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Offers on CVMA Publications
In conjunction with the Oxford University Press and the British Academy we are offering Vidimus readers exclusive discounts on recently published CVMA volumes! They include Penny Hebgin-Barnes’ widely praised 2009 volume on The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire; David Kings’ exemplary The Medieval Stained Glass of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich; Tim Ayers’ majestic two-volume study…
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Important exhibition of French Medieval Art opens in Paris
Outstanding stained glass panels are among two hundred items on display at a new major international exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. France 1500: Entre Moyen Age et Renaissance is organised by the Réunion des musées nationaux (Paris) and the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition will remain in Paris until 10 January 2011,…
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Superb CVMA Catalogue of Stained Glass in Cheshire Published
Penny Hebgin-Barnes’ definitive study for the CVMA (GB) of pre-GothicRevival stained glass in the northern British county of Cheshire hasjust been published. The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire cataloguesthe glass found at fifty sites in the county, mostly churches, but alsoincluding domestic residences and other buildings. It has 642 pages andnumerous illustrations, including 24 colour…