Category: Issue 97
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Call for Help – Panels of Medieval Stained Glass Stolen from Cambridgeshire Church
On Sunday 21 February, the congregation of St Mary and St Michael, Trumpington, discovered that the entire central lancet of their medieval fragment window had been stolen. The fragments are thought to be original to the church, having been discovered in a box in the vicarage by the late church warden Clare Bartlett. Following a…
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MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management Spring Master Class. The Nineteenth Century: Treasures, Problems & Solutions Saturday 27 February 2016
Report by Emily Yates, currently studying on the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management course The eighth annual spring master class, presented by the University of York in conjunction with the MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management, was held on Saturday 27 February 2016. This year, the conference focussed on issues…
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Appeal for Information: The Cameo glass technique
Charlotte Roden, a stained-glass student at the University of York, is appealing for information regarding the cameo glass technique developed at the end of the 19th century in Glasgow by Meikle and Sons but was surely experimented with by other studios around this time. She is focusing on the process / technique used to create…
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Glaziers Art Fair 2016
Following the success of the first Glaziers’ Art Fair, the Glaziers’ Company will be staging a second fair at the Glaziers Hall, London, which will be open to the public 25 26 October 2016. The fair will showcase the work of the company’s artist-members in stained glass as well as other media. Last year, some…
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The Stained Glass of the Hosmer Collection
McGill University, Corpus Vitrearum Canada, I, James Bugslag and Ariana Isler-de Jongh, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014, hardback, 228 pages, 9 x 12 in., 119 b&w and 46 colour photos, ISBN 9780773543973 This impressive first instalment from the Canadian Corpus Vitrearum focuses on the Hosmer Collection of thirty-eight sixteenth-century roundels and individual panels now installed…
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A Friendly Panel
Michael Carter The subject of this article is an early sixteenth-century German heraldic stained-glass panel [Fig. 1]. As will be shown, the arms depicted on the panel are those of Abbot Johannes Merck, the reforming president, from 1518 until his death in 1524, of the Benedictine abbey of Petershausen, near Constance (south-west Germany, close to…