Category: Issue 45
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Books
Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke Fig. 1. Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke. Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke by Lucy Costigan and Michael Cullen, hardback, 320 pages, numerous colour illustrations, The History Press Ireland, 2010, price £50. This book celebrates the life of Harry Clarke (1889–1931), for…
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Features
Introduction To celebrate our fourth anniversary issue we are delighted to publish this special double Features bill. Our main article provides a panel-by-panel guide to the unique Pricke of Conscience window in the parish church of All Saints, North Street York, and its remarkable imagery charting the last fifteen signs before the final Judgement of…
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St Edward the Confessor: Robert Lyen’s Work at Exeter Cathedral
This month’s panel is a tracery light from the east window of Exeter Cathedral, an institution whose documentary records reveal much about the way in which medieval glaziers worked. Unusually, our panel can be identified as the work of a glazier named in the records, the second to work on the window in less than…
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News
Schnütgen Museum Reopens to the Public Magnificent examples of German medieval stained glass have gone on show in the newly reopened Schnütgen Museum in Cologne. More than fifty-five panels from the Romanesque to the Renaissance are on display. Highlights include windows from the sixteenth-century Life of St Bernard scheme formerly in the cloisters of…