Category: Issue 61
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CVMA Colloquium
The 26th international colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum will be held this year in Vienna, 10–14 September 2012. It will be hosted by the Austrian national committee of the CVMA, and the theme of the conference will be ‘Dynastic representation in stained glass’ [Fig. 1]. A publication of the conference results is planned. For more…
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Professor Rüdiger Becksmann
We are extremely sorry to announce the untimely death of Professor Rüdiger Becksmann, one of the world’s leading scholars of medieval stained glass, and a key member of both the German CVMA and the international Corpus Vitrearum. A full appreciation of his life will appear in a later issue of Vidimus.
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Unique Roundels Acquired
Six roundels from a unique early sixteenth-century group of eight depicting Labours of the Month have been acquired by Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Four are now in Norwich and two in London. The roundels probably depict Labours for the months of March, April, June, July, August and…
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Study Day about the Medieval Stained Glass in the Savile Chapel at Thornhill (Yorkshire)
A study day on the important fifteenth-century glass in the Savile Chapel at the parish church of St Michael and All Angels, Thornhill (Yorkshire), will be held on 13 October 2012, 11am – 3pm. The glass in the east window of the chapel includes a rare depiction of the Heavenly City. As reported in issue…
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Where there’s a will…
…there’s a window. Richard Marks is preparing for the British Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi a study of medieval wills that include glazing bequests. He has already amassed several hundred, primarily from published sources, and is looking for any unpublished wills in which glazing is mentioned. If you have any information, please email Professor Marks. Sometimes…
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Wenlok Jug Stolen from Stockwood Discovery Centre
A nationally significant bronze medieval jug has been stolen from a Bedfordshire museum [Fig. 1]. The Wenlok jug was taken from the Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton at about 11pm on Saturday 12 May. Director of Museums, Karen Perkins, called the theft ‘extremely serious and upsetting’. She said: ‘We are working extremely closely with police…
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Cistercian art and architecture in the British Isles
ed. Christopher Norton and David Park, 453 pages, 190 b/w illustrations, p/b, Cambridge University Press, 2012, £29.99 This is an extremely welcome reprint of a book originally published in 1986 that has subsequently become both hard to find and expensive to buy second-hand [Fig. 1]. It also contains a new introduction by the editors. Excluding…
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Poetry In Contemporary Arguments About The Validity Of Religious Imagery In Windows
Following a recent three-day conference about seventeenth-century stained glass in Oxford, a Vidimus reporter highlights the use of poetry in contemporary arguments about the validity of religious imagery in windows. Religious turmoil in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England saw attitudes towards stained glass veer sharply. After the upheavals and blood-spilling of the Reformation and Mary’s short-lived…