Category: Issue 67
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David Whitehouse
Vidimus is sad to report the death of David Whitehouse, former executive director of the Corning Museum of Glass, who died 17 February, following a brief battle with cancer. He was 71. Whitehouse joined the museum in 1984 as chief curator, becoming director in 1992, and executive director and curator of ancient and Islamic glass…
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Medieval Narrative Art Repository
Stuart Whatling has established a website as a repository for images of medieval art, including stained glass, particularly those related to his research interest, visual narratology. There is much of interest for Vidimus readers, such as this image of glass from the clerestory of Tours Cathedral, showing Bishop Geoffroy Freslon of Le Mans presenting his…
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Roundels Exhibition in Linnich
An exhibition of 88 Flemish roundels, 10 Swiss panels, and 38 small Baroque panels belonging to the well-known collector Dr Klaus Tiedemann will open on 16th March at the Stained Glass Museum in Linnich, Germany. The ensemble, which ranges in date from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, contains exceptionally fine examples of Netherlandish roundels…
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Forthcoming Conferences
Stained Glass and Sacred Space The Association of Art German Historians (Verband Deutscher Kunsthistoriker) is holding its 32nd conference on 20–24 April 2013. One section of the conference is given over to the relationship of stained glass to sacred space. This part of the conference is being led by Frank Martin of the German CVMA…
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New Publication on Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, a new addition to the La Grâce d’une Cathedral series, is to be published in April, marking the end of a major phase in the cathedral’s restoration. Edited by the Bishop of Chartres, Michael Pansard, the book presents a history of the cathedral, and contains chapters by fifty authors, including historians, art historians, theologians…
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Collections of Stained Glass and their Histories: Transactions of the 25th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum in Saint Petersburg
Ayers, Tim ; Kurmann-Schwarz, Brigitte; Lautier, Claudine; Scholz, Hartmut (eds), The State Hermitage Museum, 2010 Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 288 pp., numerous, coloured ill. ISBN 978-3-0343-1163-2; Softcover. £57.00. Available from the publishers, Peter Lang. The twenty-fifth International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum was held in St Petersburg in…
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Reconstruction of the ‘Charity’ Window after Reynolds for the Soane Museum
Alison Gilchrist and Keith Barley, Barley Studio, York All images are reproduced courtesy of Barley Studio, unless otherwise stated. This month’s feature highlights the fascinating history of a window in the Sir John Soane Museum in London, copied from a window designed by Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) in New College, Oxford. Reynolds’s design on is based…