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Fantasy or Reality. Stained glass secrets in the work of Jan van Eyck
Exhibition in the Great Beguinage church, Sint-Amandsberg (Ghent, Belgium) April 10 – June 27, 2021.Review by Madeleine Manderyck, translated by Margot Steurbaut. In this exhibition, you are taking a walk with Jan van Eyck through his wonderful world of paintings. You enter a medieval space enchanted with the heavenly light coming through the stained glass windows.…
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Producing Vacation Documents: How-To Actually Get Paid Traveling and Create
Producing Vacation Documents: How-To Actually Get Paid Traveling and Create The Very Best Ideas and Requests for Taking Your Writing Ontheroad Vacation writing is an excellent method while also obtaining paid-for it to begin to see the world. But to become a vacation author you need conscious all the time and to be concentrated. Your…
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Writing Travel Essays: Howto Truly Receive Money To Write and Travel
Writing Travel Essays: Howto Truly Receive Money To Write and Travel The Best Methods and Prompts To Take Your Writing Vacation writing is a superb way to see the globe while also finding taken care of it. But to become a travel writer you have to be concentrated and attentive all the time. Your goal…
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Fifteenth-Century Altar Screen Restored in the Vale of Glamorgan
An intricate altar screen dating from the fifteenth century in St Cadoc’s at Llancarfan near Barry has been restored. The restoration of the screen marks the end of a four-year major conservation project, during which medieval wall-paintings of St George and the dragon and the Seven Deadly Sins have also been found. The church dates…
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Sixteenth-century Stained Glass Exhibition in Basel
A fascinating exhibition of stained glass windows painted in 1579 by the brilliant Zürich based artist, Christoph Murer (1558–1614), has opened at the Kunstmuseum in Basel. The windows were made for Leonhard Thurneysser zum Thurn (1531–1596), a remarkable sixteenth-century Swiss entrepreneur who became hugely wealthy after becoming personal physician to the Elector of Brandenburg in…
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Exhibition of German Glass: Die Staufer und Italien
Important examples of thirteenth-century stained glass produced during the reign of the Staufer dynasty of German kings (1138 to 1254) are on show in the Die Staufer und Italien exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim (southwest Germany) until 20 February 2011. Dr Uwe Gast of the CVMA (Freiburg) writes: The exhibition includes seven stained glass…
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Virtues and Vices Exhibition in Philadelphia
Designs by some of the Netherlandish artists whose work was often copied by sixteenth-century glass painters are on show at a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA) until 28 February 2011. Focusing on designs made between 1550 and 1600 in Antwerp and Haarlem, Virtues and Vices: Moralising prints in the Low Countries,…