Category: Issue 64
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Happy Christmas!
Vidimus would like to wish all its readers a happy Christmas and very best wishes for the new year. Do stay in touch and send us your news and details of any exhibitions or lectures you think should be brought to wider attention in 2013.
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85th Anniversary of the First Exhibition of Stained-Glass Photography
This month marks the eighty-fifth anniversary of the first photographic exhibition in England devoted to stained glass [Fig. 1]. It was held between 3rd and 27th December 1927 at the then offices of the Royal Photographic Society, in Russell Square, London, and was a landmark in the historiography of stained glass in Great Britain. The…
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New Light on Medieval Stained Glass
Vidimus readers are invited to the inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Freestone at University College London on 12 March 2013 [Fig. 1]. Together with colleagues based in York and Cardiff, Professor Freestone has recently completed a major programme of scientific analysis of medieval stained glass. The project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, brought together archaeological…
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Orb of Glass
A giant metallic orb displaying five newly-conserved glass panels from the East Window of York Minster has been unveiled to visitors [Fig. 1]. The orb, which is 33ft (10m) wide and 10ft (3m) tall, forms a new gallery reflecting the restoration of the minster’s Great East Window. Canon Glyn Webster, acting dean of York Minster,…
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Places of Worship in the British Isles, 1350–1550
An interesting weekend course on ‘Places of Worship in the British Isles, 1350-1550’ will be held in Oxford between Friday 4 and Sunday 6 January 2013. The late middle ages saw the flowering of a distinctive religious culture expressed in architecture and the other arts, including stained glass. The weekend will explore the religious life…
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Mayer Windows Found
Three windows by Mayer & Co. of Munich, previously thought lost, have been found at Bolligen, near Berne in Switzerland. The glass was made for the three choir windows of the protestant church at Bolligen. They are not dated, but were probably executed around 1900; they are however signed ‘Mayer’sche kgl. Hofkunstanstalt München’. The central…
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Christmas Gift Ideas
Short of ideas for Christmas presents? Two recently published books by Vidimus’s own news editor, Roger Rosewell, might fit the bill perfectly. Stained Glass is a widely praised and beautifully illustrated eighty-eight page history of stained glass in England from before the Norman Conquest to 2000; it costs £7.99. The Medieval Monastery is a readable…
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Books
Stained Glass of Lincoln Cathedral, by Carol Bennett, Nigel J. Morgan, Jim Cheshire, H. Tom Küpper and Gordon Plumb, soft back, 96 pages, 100 colour photographs, plan. Scala publishers, 2012, £15; available in person from the cathedral shop, on line, or over the telephone (01522 561644). For medievalists the stained glass of Lincoln Cathedral…
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‘The tears wept by our windows’: severe paint loss from stained glass windows of the mid-nineteenth century
This feature article is based on the dissertation submitted by Alison Gilchrist to the University of York in September 2010 as part of her MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management. The full text of the dissertation is available on the CVMA website and also in the University of York library. Alison is now…