Category: Issue 93
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St Michael’s Coventry: The Rise and Fall of the Old Cathedral
By George Demidowicz and Heather Gilderdale Scott, introduction by Jonathan Foyle, Coventry Cathedral and The World Monuments Fund, softback, 128 pages, numerous col. illustrations, Scala Books, 2015, RRP £19.95 This is a fascinating book about one of England’s most iconic churches and its surviving medieval stained glass (Fig. 1). In the Middle Ages, the West…
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Stained Glass from Syon Abbey
An important new book has been published to coincide with the 600th anniversary of the founding of Syon Abbey, the only monastery of the Brigittine Order to be established in England before the Reformation and, by the time of its dissolution in 1539, the tenth wealthiest monastery in Henry VIII’s kingdom. It was also home…
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Important Stained Glass Sold at London Auction
Stained glass from an important private collection of Gothic art in Switzerland attracted competitive bidding at Christie’s London saleroom on 8 July. Three lots of stained glass were offered. The most important was an early fourteenth-century Austrian panel depicting St Christina measuring 80.5 x 37.7cm, which soared past its estimate of £10–15,000 to fetch £35,000.…
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The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS): 9th Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass
Review by Katie Harrison The International Council on Monuments and Sites’ (ICOMOS) 9th Forum for the Conservation and Technology of Historic Stained Glass was held in Paris 8–10 July. The forum, Stained-glass: How to Take Care of a Fragile Heritage?, drew speakers and delegates from across the world, with a stimulating combination of two days…
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Arts and Crafts Stained Glass – A Short Film
To celebrate the publication of Peter Cormack’s Arts and Crafts Stained Glass (see Vidimus 92), a short film has been produced by Yale University Press. The film follows Cormack as he explores the art of stained glass, from the treasures hidden inside a London church to the work of contemporary stained glass artists in their…
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Icon Stained Glass Group AGM and Conference Working with the Evidence: Researching, Recording, Retaining, Removing Evidence of Earlier Intervention
17–18 September 2015, The Burrell Collection, Glasgow Almost all stained-glass panels bear evidence of alteration, restoration and earlier intervention. The careful observation, recording and interpretation through research of these layers of history is integral to the work of the conservator. The implications of these observations for future treatment and preventive conservation can often, however, be…
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New Sam Fogg Website
The London-based medieval art dealer Sam Fogg has a new website. It features images of a variety of stained-glass panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including roundels and single figures. Particularly notable are three panels of c.1530 from the Temple Church in Paris attributed to Jean Chastelain.
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Jewels of Light: Creation, Preservation, Appreciation of Stained Glass
Elizabeth Dent, who holds an MA in Stained Glass Conservation & Heritage Management from the University of York, where she was a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, and now works within the Office of the Director at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, reviews the International Symposium on Technical Aspects of Stained Glass, held at Washington…
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Stained Glass from the Corcoran Gallery to Return to Park Abbey
Ellen Shortell Last July, Vidimus reported on the impending closure of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC and the uncertain future of a group of seventeenth-century stained and enamelled glass panels originally made for the cloister of the Premonstratensian abbey of Park in Heverlee, Leuven (Belgium) by the glass-painter Jean de Caumont (Roger…