Category: Issue 92
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Keith Barley Awarded the MBE
Barley Studio is delighted to announce that its founder and managing director, Keith Barley, has recently been created MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) ‘for services to cultural restoration and conservation’ in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, which was released on Saturday 13 June 2015. Throughout his career, Keith has been instrumental…
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Work Begins on Reinstalling York Minster’s Great East Window
Work has begun this month on the reinstallation of the conserved tracery panels of the Great East Window of York Minster – starting, appropriately, with God the Father. The panel has been returned to the apex of the window seven years after the panels were removed for conservation. The window, which was created in 1405–1408…
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Summer Events
This year there are plenty of events of interest to Vidimus readers to accompany the good weather. 15 July: Bishops, Kings and Saints in Early Medieval Winchester An important lecture by Sarah Foot about how Winchester became not just the political base of the kings of Wessex (later of all England) but also the most…
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Corpus Vitrearum Catalunya Marks the Publication of its Fifth Volume
On 20 July, the Catalan Corpus Vitrearum is to hold a discussion day at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans to celebrate the publication of the long-awaited and much anticipated fifth and final volume in its medieval series. There will be presentations on the Catalan CVMA and its relation to the international body, as well as on…
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Luttrell Palter Exhibited in Lincoln
An internationally famous illuminated manuscript made c.1335–45 and known as the Luttrell Psalter,will be on show at a spectacular exhibition in Lincoln from 27 June until 27 September. Produced for Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, the wealthy lord of the manor at Irnham, near Grantham, it contains the 150 psalms of the Old Testament, along with beautiful…
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Book News
Two splendid new books likely to appeal to Vidimus readers will be published in the autumn. Arts and Crafts Stained Glass by Peter Cormack will be published by Yale University Press. This will be the first comprehensive account of stained glass produced by members of the Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain, Ireland and the…
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Books
The Cult of St George in Medieval England, by Jonathan Good, p/b 198 pages, 18 b/w illustrations, The Boydell Press, 2015 Around forty images of St George survive in English medieval stained glass, so any book that sheds light on why and by whom these windows were commissioned, and how contemporary audiences responded to them…
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The Glacier – Victorian DIY Imitation Stained Glass
Monika Adamczak Interior design was a popular hobby amongst women during the second half of the nineteenth century. It was considered an appropriate activity for women, and newspapers, journals and even treatises were addressed to women seeking to embellish their houses (Fig. 1).[1] These publications covered a broad range of artistic expertise, ranging from informative…