Category: Issue 52
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Eva Frodl-Kraft (1916-2011): a tribute by Richard Marks
It is with great regret that we announce the death on 1 May of Professor Eva Frodl-Kraft, one of the founders of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi project and a medieval art historian of international renown. Born in Vienna, Eva studied at the University there and during the Second World War supervised the photographic division…
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Discovering Medieval Stained Glass in Nottinghamshire
A medieval stained glass trail for Nottinghamshire churches has been published by the excellent Southwell & Nottingham Diocese Church History Project. The trail involves a journey of thirty-seven miles, visiting seven churches with important remains of medieval glass ranging from the twelfth to the late fifteenth centuries. The churches are: Halam, St Michael; Southwell Minster;…
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Medieval Vogue in New York
A new exhibition with plenty of interest to historians of stained glass has opened at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands uses manuscript illuminations and four full-scale replicas of some of the clothing depicted in the manuscripts to examine fashion in…
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Relics and Reliquaries at the British Museum
A major exhibition focusing on the spiritual and artistic significance of Christian relics and reliquaries in medieval Europe will open at the British Museum on 23 June and run until 9 October. Sacred items related to Christ or the saints were first used during the early medieval period as a focus for prayer and veneration…
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Durer Exhibition in Scotland
An exhibition of Albrecht Dürer prints has opened at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was probably the most important artist of the Northern Renaissance. His output included designs for stained glass. The exhibition shows a selection of prints, drawings and paintings from the National Galleries of Scotland’s collection, including the…
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New Zealand earthquake
A New Zealand photographer is raising funds for the rebuilding of Christchurch Cathedral which was largely destroyed in a recent earthquake. Amazingly detailed images of around thirty windows, taken with advanced photogrammetric techniques that can record windows in 3D with millimetre accuracy, have been posted online by Derek Golding. The pictures can be sent as…
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Stained Glass Workshops in York
A new programme of workshops is planned for the Stained Glass Centre, Church of St. Martin cum Gregory, Micklegate, York: Stained glass cutting, painting and leading workshop Saturday 16 July- Sunday 17 July 2011, 10.30am-4.30pm on each day In this two-day workshop you will learn the techniques of cutting, painting and leading to create your…
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Name that Roundel!
This month’s puzzle depicts a seated figure of the Virgin Mary and the Christ child in front a kneeling man [Fig. 5]. The Virgin Mary is squeezing her right breast as if she is suckling the naked child. The kneeling man is tonsured. He wears a white habit and carries a crozier. What subject does…
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The Ormesby Psalter and a lost Midlands Jesse Window: Media Cross-Fertilisation in the Early Fourteenth Century
By Dr Frederica Law-Turner Dr Frederica Law-Turner writes and lectures on English medieval art. Her main interest is in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century manuscript illumination. She has taught at University of Kent and catalogued medieval manuscripts for Sothebys. She is currently preparing her PhD thesis on the Ormesby Psalter for publication by the Bodleian Library Press.…
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Elevation and Salvation
Tamara Klemm studied history of art at the Albert-Ludwigs-Unversität in Freiburg im Breisgau, and has worked since 2007 as an academic research assistant for the German Corpus Vitrearum. Her master’s thesis dealt with the choir glazing of the church of St Martha in Nuremberg, in particular with the windows’ original programme. She is currently doing…