Category: Issue 55
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New Roundels book published
The second volume of the Belgian CVMA’s outstanding series devoted to Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution in Flanders has been published. Compiled by C.J. Berserik, and J Caen, it describes the silver-stained glass roundels and unipartite panels from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century found in public buildings, museums and…
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New Displays at ‘Ancestors of Christ’ Exhibition in Canterbury Cathedral
Details have been announced of the latest phases of Canterbury Cathedral’s rolling exhibition of important late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century figures from the south-west transept windows. The figures originally filled the choir and trinity chapel clerestory windows and were part of an eighty-six figure scheme depicting The Ancestors of Christ, largely based on the…
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Name that Roundel!
This month’s puzzle comes from the parish church of St Oswald at Malpas (Cheshire) [Fig. 1] The panel shows three figures. The figure on the left has his left arm raised. The man and woman on the right appear to be a leading a group of people. They carry sacks. Behind the main figures a…
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Books
Gothic Art & Thought in the Later Medieval Period, Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer , edited by Colum Hourihane, The Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers – XII. Distributed by Penn State University Press, 2011, p/b, 340 pp, b/w illustrations, approx £27 online from Amazon Books. This book [Fig. 1] consists of…
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William Price, the glass at Mereworth and the Pigott panel at the V&A
The Pigott panel at the V&A.Geoffrey Lane considers a mysterious heraldic panel held by the V&A, its relationship to glass at Mereworth, Kent and the role of talented glass-painter William Price Mereworth Castle and Church In the 1720s, the Scottish architect Colen Campbell (d 1729) completely rebuilt Mereworth Castle in Kent as a Palladian villa…
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Excavated medieval glass from Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
Hazel Gardiner has recently completed training at UCL Institute of Archaeology (MA Principles of Conservation and MSc Conservation for Archaeology and Museums). She is currently an editor and researcher for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland and researcher for the CVMA-GB. A large group of excavated stained glass pieces has recently come to…