Category: Issue 84
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Herkenrode Glass: Watch this Space
Work has started this month on the preparations for the reinstallation of Lichfield Cathedral’s Herkenrode glass. Vidimus has followed the conservation of these exceptional panels, which formed part of a £3.7 million restoration project at the cathedral. The glass was originally made for the abbey at Herkenrode (near Hasselt, Liège, in present-day Belgium) in the…
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Call for Papers
The 20th Congress of the International Association for the History of Glass has been announced, and the call for papers issued. The congress will take place in Fribourg and Romont, Switzerland, Monday 7 – Friday 11 September 2015. It is organized by the Vitrocentre Romont, in collaboration with the University of Fribourg, the Fribourg Cantonal…
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University of York Stained Glass Master Class Lecture
The autumn Stained Glass Master Class Lecture presented by the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management and the Stained Glass Research Centre will take place on Thursday 13 November 2014 at 5.15pm, in the Philip Ratz Lecture Theatre, K/133, Kings Manor, York. The lecture is entitled ‘Cold Paint, Warm Windows and Digital Futures’…
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Stained Glass Museum: New Blog Post
The newly launched blog of the Stained Glass Museum, ‘Through the Eyes of the Conservator’, has published a new post. As mentioned in our last issue, the blog follows the conservation of stained-glass panels by the artist Geoffrey Clarke. The latest post focuses on the initial conservation investigations and objections relating to ‘Fragment’ (1956–59). Click…
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‘Old Craft, New Art: An Artistic Journey’: A Lecture by Helen Whittaker
Helen Whittaker, Creative Director and Artist/Designer to Barley Studio, York, recently gave a lecture at the Stained Glass Centre, York, entitled ‘Old Craft, New Art: An Artistic Journey’. With the historic church of St Martin-cum-Gregory providing an appropriate backdrop, Helen began by describing her artistic inspirations, from Giotto to Warhol, hinting how her favourite artists…
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El Valor Històric Del Vitrall i Els Seus Problemes De Conservació
The Historical Value of Stained Glass and its Conservation Problems, Conference, La Mercè Cultural Centre, Girona, 17 October 2014 Katie Harrison reports On the 17 October, La Mercè Cultural Centre, Girona, played host to a conference organized by Anna Santolaria, a recent graduate of the University of York’s MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage…
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Images, Words and the Word in Sixteenth-century Glazing
The following piece was originally presented as a poster board at the 27th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum on the theme of ‘Word and Image’ held in York in July 2014. In England as the sixteenth century progressed, the proportions of newly commissioned windows and individual glazed panels occupied by words and images respectively…