Reminder: Stained Glass Museum Study Weekend 2019: West Yorkshire
Taking place between Thursday, 25th and Sunday, 28th April, the weekend will be based in Bradford and will explore the wide range of stained glass, both medieval and more modern, to be found across the...
View ArticleLecture: ‘Radiant Art-The Splendour and Sorrow of Medieval Stained Glass’
Thursday, 7th March 2019, 2.00pm Well-known to readers of Vidimus through his regular contributions, the stained glass author, photographer and lecturer, Roger Rosewell appreciates fully that stained...
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Tewkesbury Abbey cartoons preserved
Fig. 1. Cartoons on display at the Society of Antiquaries of London – © Society of Antiquaries of London, hereafter SAL. A private viewing of important cartoons of the famous medieval glass at...
View ArticleLecture: The Stained Glass of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907)
Friday, 12th April, 2019, 2.30pm – 4.30pm Kempe’s influence on Victorian and 20th-century church art and decoration was immense, and his work attracted the patronage of Royalty, senior clergy, the...
View ArticleBSMGP Discussion Day 2019: ‘Splendid yet Intimate – Stained Glass for House...
Friday, 31st May, 2019 from 10.00am to 4.30pm Each year the BSMGP holds a discussion day aimed at students and stained glass artists in the early stages of their career, although established artists...
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BSMGP Summer Lecture 2019
Friday, 14th June 2019 at 6.15pm Fig. 1. Detail from Martin Donlin’s commission for Belfast City Hall, centred on the Cattle Raid of Cooley from the Ulster myth cycle. The British Society of Master...
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BSMGP Touring Conference 2019: Bath and the Levels
Wednesday, 28th – Saturday, 31st August, 2019 Fig. 2. Detail from a series of panels showing the Joys of the Virgin, dating to the early 16th-century, Winchester Cathedral, presbytery aisle, SVIII E1...
View ArticleVacancy at Cologne
Cathedral’s Stained Glass Studio Cologne Cathedral is inviting applications for a permanent position as a stained glass restorer, working in the cathedral studio. International applicants are welcome....
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Canterbury Cathedral Lecture Series: See-through Stories: Windows on the World
Fig. 1. Joseph, from the genealogical sequence in the choir clerestory of Canterbury Cathedral. By kind permission of the Chapter of Canterbury. Starting on May 1st, Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass...
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Canterbury Cathedral: Stained Glass Studio Tour
Fig. 1. Typolgical window from the choir aisle at Canterbury Cathedral, just one of the priceless historic windows under the care of the Canterbury Stained Glass Studio. Friday, 17th May, 2019...
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Inspired by Burne-Jones, a Unique Exhibition of Contemporary Glass
4th – 16th June, 2019 The Grange Art Gallery, Rottingdean, East Sussex Fig. 1. Panel by Jonathan Cooke, Inspired by Burne-Jones. Among the glitterati attracted to the seaside village of Rottingdean at...
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Appeal for Help
Fig. 1. Detail of the quarry design with unknown iconography. Brianne Kozlowski, a graduate from the University of York MA (2013) now consulting in the US, and Drew Anderson of the Metropolitan Museum...
View ArticleREMINDER: BSMGP Summer Lecture 2019
Friday, 14th June 2019 at 6.15pm The British Society of Master Glass Painters’ (BSMGP) Summer lecture will be given this year by the award-winning architectural glass art specialist, Martin Donlin, who...
View ArticleREMINDER: BSMGP Discussion Day 2019: ‘Splendid yet Intimate – Stained Glass...
Friday, 31st May, 2019 from 10.00am to 4.30pm Each year the BSMGP holds a discussion day aimed at students and stained glass artists in the early stages of their career, although established artists...
View ArticleCVMA Joins the Medieval Academy of America
The website of the CVMA (GB), part of the international research project dedicated to the recording and publishing of all medieval stained glass, has been approved for inclusion in the Medieval Academy...
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Stained Glass Museum Autumn Lecture Series
The Stained Glass Museum, Ely, has announced details of its lecture series for Autumn 2019. The series will focus on the concept of the ‘new’ in relation to stained glass: new commissions, new...
View ArticleNew Director at the Vitrocentre and Vitromusée, Romont
On June 1st, Francine Giese will take up the post of director of the Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont, due to the retirement of current director, Stefan Trümpler. With a background in Art History,...
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Relief at Notre Dame
Fig. 1. Notre Dame south rose window (Image by Gerhard Bögner from Pixabay). Despite the loss of its great medieval roof, preliminary surveys suggest that none of the thirteenth-century glass in the...
View ArticleICON Stained Glass Group Conference 2019: Accommodating the Past
On October 4 2019, the SGG Conference will take place in the Chapterhouse at Gloucester Cathedral. The renowned collection of stained glass at the cathedral will provide a wonderful backdrop to this...
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St Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury
Fig. 1. The damaged panel. An appeal has been launched by Friends of St Mary’s church in Shrewsbury after an important renaissance window was damaged during a break-in to the church in the early hours...
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