Category: Issue 53
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Stained Glass in Wales: New Free Website
A fantastic new illustrated catalogue of stained glass in Wales is avaliable online. The free website includes around 5,000 images of windows from over 350 sites in Wales, dating from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It features the medieval windows at Gresford, the marvellous Jesse Tree window at Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch, as well as important sixteenth-century…
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Stained Glass From Lorsch Abbey: New Exhibition
A new exhibition at the Museum Centre in Lorsch, 10 km east of Worms in the German Rhineland, features some of the most exciting stained glass in Europe. The exhibition is entitled Kloster Lorsch Vom Reichskloster Karls des Großen zum Weltkulturerbe der Menschheit (Lorsch Abbey: from Imperial Foundation of Charlegmane to Cultural Heritage Site for…
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Stained Glass at The Naumburg Master exhibition
Important thirteenth-century stained glass is part of a new exhibition of medieval art in Naumburg, an ancient city in Saxony-Anhalt, 60km south-west of Leipzig (Germany). The exhibition is being held at several venues in the city including the cathedral and museum. It closes on 2 November. Entitled Der Naumburger Meister (The Naumburg Master), the exhibition…
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Exhibition of Roundels in Heidelberg
Sixty-five fifteenth- and sixteenth-century roundels and additional Swiss panels can be seen in a new exhibition at the Museum für Sakrale Kunst und Liturgie in Heidelberg (south-west Germany). The roundels belong to Dr Klaus Tiedemann. They are illustrated and discussed in his excellent Gemalt auf Glas & Licht (Painted on Glass and Light) catalogue published…
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Seventeenth-century Painted Glass in Oxford
An important weekend course on seventeenth-century century painted glass in Oxford will be held in the city in May next year. Organised by the University’s Department for Continuing Education in association with the Ecclesiological Society and the Stained Glass Research Centre at the University of York, the course will include lectures by art and architectural…
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Books
Monumental Survey of Dutch Stained Glass Before 1795 When Vidimus readers return after their summer breaks, the fourth volume of the Dutch Corpus Vitrearum series will have been published. It is a colossal, richly illustrated, two-part survey of all stained glass pre-dating 1795 in public buildings in the Netherlands. Although the Netherlands is famous for…
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From Parrots to Princes: Exhibitions of Contemporary Stained Glass in Late Eighteenth-century London
Joanna Cobb Joanna completed her MA in art history at Birkbeck College, where she specialised in the exhibition culture of late eighteenth-century London. Joanna is now preparing her doctoral thesis through the University of Glasgow, which is based around Schomberg House, Pall Mall, and the varied artistic practices to which it bore witness in the…
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A Madonna From Iwkowa
Fig. 1. The Virgin clothed in sun, Diocesan Museum, TarnówEwa Łapa Ewa lives in Poland and is an architect, art historian and occasional stained glass designer. She is a member of the Polish stained glass art society, ‘ARS VITREA POLONA’. Introduction Although stained glass filled the windows of Poland’s churches in the Middle Ages, only…
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Replica Fifteenth-century Painted Panel Displayed at Thornhill
Previous issues of Vidimus have traced Jonathan and Ruth Cooke’s conservation of important fifteenth-century painted and stained glass at the parish church of St Michael and All Angels at Thornhill in West Yorkshire As part of this project Jonathan Cooke recently created a replica cartoon of one of the original panels showing St Michael weighing…