Books

Romanesque and Medieval

Romanesque Art and Thought in the Twelfth Century, ed. Colum Hourihane. 368 pages, 216 illustrations, published by Penn State Press. Price $85 hardback; $35 softback.

The Harrowing of Hell, by Karl Tamburr. Although not specifically about stained glass, this book will be of interest to readers who want to learn about the history and theology of windows depicting this scene, such as that at St Mary’s Church, Fairford, (Gloucestershire). According to apocryphal books such as the ‘Gospel of Nicodemus’, the Harrowing of Hell describes events in the three days between Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection, during which time he descended to Hell, debated with infernal adversaries, and liberated Adam and Eve and the ‘ancient just’ from Limbo. Karl Tamburr is Professor of English at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, USA. Boydell Press (2007), 211 pages. £50 (hardback). ISBN-13: 978-1-84384-117-3. ISBN-10: 1-84384-117-7

The Seventh Window: The King’s Window Donated by Philip II and Mary Tudor to Sint Janskerk in Gouda (1557),by Wim de Groot. Hilversum, Verloren (2005). 301 pages, 115 illustrations in colour and b/w, cloth jacket. €40.

Victorian

Morris and Company’s Stained Glass for the Chapel of Cheadle Hospital from designs by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, by Peter Cormack. This is the catalogue of an exhibition staged by the nineteenth-century design specialists, Haslam & Whiteway Ltd, at the 2008 London Olympia Arts and Antiques Fair. The chapel of Cheadle Hospital (near Manchester, England) was glazed between 1906 and 1915. The scheme consisted of full length Old and New Testament figures together with narrative schemes. The glass was removed after the hospital closed some years ago. 49 pages with good colour illustrations. £10. Available via the Haslam & Whiteway website.

Colloquium

Le vitrail et les traités du Moyen Age à nos jours: Acts du XXIIe colloque international du Corpus Vitrearum, ed. Karine Boulanger and Michel Hérold. This book contains all the papers presented at the 22nd international colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) held in Tours in 2006. The book is published by Peter Lang (Bern). 350 pages, 100 b/w illustrations, 18 colour plates. €57 or £42.50. ISBN 978-3-03911-579-2. Available via the publisher’s website.Virginia C. Raguin, ‘The Reception of Theophilus’s De Diversis Artibus’; Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, ‘« (…) quicquid discere, intelligere vel excogitare possis artium (…) ». Le traité De diversis artibus de Théophile, état de la recherche et questions’; Frank Martin, ‘Disegno versus pratica. Cennino Cenninis Kapitel über die Glasmalerei im kunsttheoretischen Kontext’; Renée K. Burnam, ‘Siena Cathedral’s fenestra rotunda magna: Preliminary Observations about Theory and Practice in Italian Stained Glass Production’; Claudine Lautier, ‘L’apport de l’expérimentation du traité d’Antoine de Pise à la connaissance du vitrail médiéval’; Lisa Pilosi, Sarah Barack and Mark T. Wypyski, ‘Early acid-etching of stained glass’; Isabelle Lecocq and Jean-Pierre Delande, ‘Les traités techniques: formalisation, codification, transmission et actualisation des croyances, des savoirs et savoir-faire ancestraux. L’exemple de Jean d’Outremeuse et du moine de Zagan’; Roland Sanfaçon, ‘Le sacré et le vitrail dans les traités du Moyen Âge’; Joost Caen and Bert De Munck, ‘Les métiers: entre la qualité des œuvres et l’innovation technologique. Recettes et prescriptions techniques pour la production de vitraux dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux du XVe au XVIIIe siècle’; Victor Nieto Alcaide, ‘Traités espagnols sur le vitrail. Théorie et pratique (XVIe-XIXe siècles)’; Uta Bergmann and Yves Jolidon, ‘Das Reise- und Rezeptbüchlein des Speyrer Glas- und Hinterglasmalers Ulrich Daniel Metzger’; Rüdiger Becksmann, ‘Die verschollene Denkschrift des Jean-Adolphe Dannegger oder die verpaßte Chance einer Wiedergeburt der monumentalen Glasmalerei in Straßburg um 1750’; Daniel Parello, ‘Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit – Wiederbelebungsmythen im Zeitalter nationaler Selbstfindung’; Michel Hérold, ‘Les manuels de vitriers et de peintres sur verre (1828-1843), ou la bibliothèque de Bouvard et Pécuchet’; Jean-François Luneau, ‘À la recherche des secrets perdus. Les ouvrages du XIXe siècle sur le vitrail’; Sarah Brown, ‘Recovering the Past – Thinking about the Future: Writing about Stained Glass in England, c. 1750-c. 1850’; James Bugslag, ‘The Revival and Resurgence of Stained Glass ‘Treatises’ in the 19th Century and their Implications for the Study of Pre-Modern Stained Glass’; and Silvia Silvestri, ‘Tradition et innovation dans les traités italiens du XIXe siècle’.