Category: Issue 94
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Discoveries and Puzzles at Thorney Abbey Church
Tantalizing discoveries about the provenance of six panels German glass of c.1450 installed in the easternmost north and south nave windows of Thorney Abbey Church (Cambridgeshire), dedicated to St Mary and St Botolph, have been made after the glass was photographed during a visit by delegates attending the July 2015 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium [fig. 1].…
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CVMA (GB) Picture Archive: Essex Update
Christopher Parkinson reports. A very large second batch of images of stained glass from Essex has recently been uploaded to the CVMA Picture Archive, covering the glazing of forty-four churches I visited during 2014. Apart from the medieval glass, all glazing from the seventeenth century right through to the present has been photographed, catalogued and…
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Successful Harlaxton Symposium
July’s 2015 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium contained much of interest to stained-glass historians. Apart from papers by Professor Richard Marks, Sarah Brown and Nicholas Rogers specifically about aspects of pre-Reformation glazing schemes (see Vidimus 92), other speakers at the event also touched on the subject in different ways. Discussions over (not too many) glasses of wine…
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Job Opportunity at Lincoln
Lincoln Cathedral Works Department is seeking to appoint an additional member of staff who is skilled in working on historical and architectural stained glass. The glazing department is a small team dedicated to the care and maintenance of the large collection of stained glass and leaded windows of Lincoln Cathedral and the plain glazed windows…
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Portrait of an Artist (1)
The Daniel Katz Gallery in London is currently selling a portrait of Einar Forseth (1892–1988) [fig. 1], the Swedish stained-glass artist responsible for some of the most striking modernist windows in Coventry Cathedral [fig. 2]. The portrait is by Axel Fridell (1894–1935), a leading Swedish painter and print-maker before the Second World War. A print…
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Stained Glass Exhibition at Girona Art Museum
An exhibition of fourteenth-century stained glass opened last month at Girona Art Museum and will run until 22 May 2016. The exhibition features eleven fourteenth-century panels belonging to Girona Cathedral, which were made by two different masters: El Mestre del Presbiteri and Guillem de Letumgard, alongside the Girona table and a replica of a white-washed…
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Portrait of an Artist (2)
A fascinating article about the life and work of the stained-glass artist and author Hugh Arnold (1872–1915) appears in the recently published 2015 Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters. Written by Peter Cormack, one of the leading scholars of the Arts & Crafts movement, the article not only describes Arnold’s windows, but…
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The Society of Glass Technology Centenary
The Society of Glass Technology celebrates its centenary in 2016, and is planning a conference that will be a significant opportunity to review the state of glass in its widest manifestations – from the theoretical challenges of understanding the glassy state and the glass transition to the latest developments in the application of glasses in…
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Glass Workshops
The Architectural Glass Centre, the commercial arm of the Swansea School of Architectural Glass, is continuing its programme of glass-painting workshops and masterclasses with Jonathan Cooke in the autumn of 2016. The dates of the proposed workshops are as follows: Glass-painting: 16–19 September Silver stain and enamel: 20–22 September The glass-painting workshops are run over…
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Rare Books on Stained Glass
Janette Ray Booksellers, York, has in preparation a first catalogue of out of print, rare and reference material on stained and painted glass. If you would like to receive a copy of this catalogue, please contact Janette Ray by email (books@janetteray.co.uk), telephone (+44 (0) 1904 623088), or post (at Janette Ray, 8 Bootham York, YO30…