Category: Issue 74
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Stained Glass on Facebook
The British Society of Master Glass Painters has recently launched a Facebook page, which you can find here. Check the page for news, events, lectures and publications, and don’t forget that Vidimus also has a page at https://www.facebook.com/VidimusOnline. We welcome readers to post on our facebook page; discuss glass-related issues, give opinions on our issues,…
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Call for Abstracts: Collecting through Connections: Glass and Stained-glass Collectors and their Networks in the 19th Century
The VICARTE research unit (Glass and Ceramic for the Arts and Parques de Sintra – Monte da Lua) have announced an international conference Collecting through Connections: Glass and Stained-glass Collectors and their Networks in the 19th Century, which will be held in Lisbon 4–6 February of 2015 [Fig. 1]. Abstracts focusing on 19th-century collecting practices…
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Stained Glass Film Launch Event
The Scottish Stained Glass Symposium & Trust and the School of Scottish Studies Archives (University of Edinburgh) have announced the release of their new DVD ‘Crear McCartney’s Dolphinton Windows’. Filmed in the studio and on site at Black Mount Parish Church, Dolphinton (Peebleshire), between July 2008 and February 2009, the film offers a unique opportunity…
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Rare works by Albrecht Dürer on Display at the Courtauld Gallery
An exhibition entitled ‘The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure’ has opened at the Courtauld Gallery, London. One of the most important artists of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) produced many designs for stained glass. Previous Vidimus articles have highlighted the importance of Dürer and his impact on stained glass design: see Vidimus 7, 10,…
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Tiffany Glass on Display in the USA
Historic Tiffany Windows on Display in Waco, Texas ‘In Company with Angels’, a unique exhibition of seven stained-glass Tiffany windows, has opened for a three-month period at the Lee Lockwood Library and Museum, Waco, Texas. It features 8ft-tall windows depicting the seven angels of the churches in Asia Minor named in the book of Revelation.…
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New Window Designed by Artist Richard Wright Made and Installed by the York Glaziers Trust at Tate Britain
York Glaziers Trust has completed the making and installation of a brand new window for Tate Britain, London, designed by Turner Prize winning artist Richard Wright. The window, situated in the Millbank foyer, uses only clear, hand-made glass and a delicate geometric leaded design set within an elegant metal framework. Glasses of different type…
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The Stained Glass Museum 2014 Annual Study Weekend
The Stained Glass Museum’s 2014 study weekend ‘Salisbury and Wiltshire’ will be on Thursday 24 – Sunday 27 April 2014. It will take place in the delightful county of Wiltshire, where the group will be based in Salisbury. Visits will include a number of sites with stained glass from the early medieval period to the…
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Society of Glass Technology Conferences: Calls for Papers
The Society of Glass Technology has announced the conferences it will be holding in 2014 and is calling for papers. The SGT Living Glass conference will be heading to Durham University and will also host Glassac14. Attendees might want to visit the cathedral while they are in the city to view its magnificent stained glass.…
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Bringing Back 16th-century Beauty at the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Brisbane
The Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology holds a significant collection of medieval and Victorian stained-glass windows that are in desperate need of conservation. The museum, just north of Brisbane, is one of Australia’s foremost collectors of fine arts and antiquities. It is a registered charity, but receives no operational funding from any level of…
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Richard Marks, Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages
24 x 17cm, 830 pages, 456 illus., £150.00, ISBN 978 1 904597 38 4, Pindar Press This book brings together a selection of the fruits of almost forty years of research by one of Britain’s most distinguished art historians. The work of Professor Richard Marks is well known to readers of Vidimus, of course. A…