Deadline approaching: Collaborative Doctoral Award Competition 2019, A Window...
Applications are invited for an AHRC fully-funded Ph.D studentship based in the Department of Archaeology at University of Sheffield (alongside Caroline Jackson), working closely with the Stained Glass...
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Suffolk’s Stained Glass Rated Top in the Country by Church Tourism Website
Fig. 1 Members of the Clopton family, John Clopton’s ancestors, now in the north nave aisle of Long Melford Church. Research by the church tourism website, explorechurches.org, has named Suffolk as the...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: “Relative Values: The Cost of Art in...
Fig. 1. “Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and their Mother”, c.1530-45, de-signed and executed by Dirck Vellert (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Stained glass designed and executed by Dirck...
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Gothic Hall with Medieval Stained Glass discovered in Crusader Fortress
Renewed excavation at Montfort Castle, a Crusader fortress in modern northern Galilee, dating to the thirteenth century, has discovered a previously unknown, massive Gothic hall in which survives the...
View ArticleBritish Society of Master Glass Painters: a New Website and a Look Ahead to 2019
The BSMGP recently launched its beautifully transformed website (www.bsmgp.org.uk). It now contains not only information about the Society, its events, publications and how to become a member, but also...
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York Open Studios: Lecture by Ann Sotheran
Fig. 1. Ann Sotheran’s window in the Ridley Chapel, St Boniface’s Church, Bunbury, Cheshire. Saturday, 23rd February, 2019, 10.30 am York Open Studios (YOS) is an annual arts event celebrating the best...
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Further travels of Nineteenth-Century British Stained Glass
Following on from the discovery, featured in last month’s Vidimus (issue 121), of stained glass at the Güell Palace in Barcelona from the studio of T. W. Camm, this month brings further evidence of the...
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The Corpus Vitrearum Celebrates
Fig. 1. Detail of tracery panel from window sVII, Christ Church, Oxford, taken from CVMA photo archive. The British arm of the international stained glass research project, the Corpus Vitrearum,...
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A Royal Visit for the Stained Glass Museum
Fig. 1. HRH the Prince of Wales examines a window in the Stained Glass Museum’s gallery with the museum’s curator, Dr Jasmine Allen. On 27 November, the Stained Glass Museum celebrated the upcoming...
View ArticleReminders
York Open Studios: Lecture by Ann Sotheran Saturday, 23rd February, 2019, 10.30 am York Open Studios (YOS) is an annual arts event celebrating the best artists and art makers living in and around the...
View ArticleDay Course: ‘Christian Imagery in the Medieval English Parish Church’
Saturday, 16th March 2019 As part of its programme for 2019, Norwich Historic Churches Trust (NHCT) will host a day school, led by Sophie Weston, exploring the use of imagery within the medieval parish...
View ArticleLecture: ‘Stained Glass in the English Parish Church: Through the Ages’
Saturday, 23rd February 2019, 2.30pm Dr Jasmine Allen, Curator of the Stained Glass Museum, Ely, will give a Flamstead Heritage Lecture, for the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and...
View ArticleLecture: ‘The Illustration and Stained Glass of Harry Clarke 1889-1931
Friday, 8th February 2019, 1.00pm Harry Clarke is best known as the leading Irish stained glass artist of the early twentieth century, but he also deserves recognition for his talents in other media,...
View ArticleThe Glaziers Trust announces new awards, including the Moat Memorial Award
The Glaziers Trust, part of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers’ charitable foundation, has long supported the restoration and conservation of historic and important stained glass through the award of...
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Call for Papers: ‘The Art of the Lost: Destruction, Reconstruction and...
Fig. 1. Thomas Johnson’s ‘Choir of Canterbury Cathedral’, dated 1657, showing iconoclasts attacking the stained glass windows. Throughout 2019, Canterbury Cathedral will celebrate the role and...
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Exhibition: Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain: Last few weeks
Fig. 1. Detail from ‘The Good Shepherd’ by Edward Burne-Jones, 1857-61, which features in the Tate exhibition. Ultimately one of the great artists of the European fin de siècle, Edward Burne-Jones was...
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Exhibition: Dreaming in Blue: Harry Clarke Watercolours, until February 14th,...
Fig. 1. Design for ‘At Length Burst in the Argent Revelry’, for the Eve of St Agnes window, by Harry Clarke, c.1923, in the Collection of the Crawford Art Gallery. In 1923, Harry Clarke was approached...
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Lost: forty stained-glass windows from Antwerp
Fig. 1. Sketch of St Francis by Abraham van Diepenbeeck, perhaps indicating how he was depicted in the Minim cloister in Antwerp. In the 1640s, Abraham van Diepenbeeck created forty stained-glass...
View ArticleGlaziers’ Company Work Placement Awards 2019: Deadline Approaches
The March 19th, 2019 deadline is fast approaching for two Glaziers’ Company work placement awards: The Award for Excellence: a forty-week enhanced work experience programme, and – The Ashton Hill...
View ArticleStained Glass Museum 40th Birthday Celebrations
On Saturday, 30th March 2019 the Stained Glass Museum will celebrate 40 years of opening to the public. To celebrate this milestone birthday, entry to the museum will be free and a Family Fun Day is...
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