Author Archives: ltempest

The first major study of the important medieval glass at Reims Cathedral has been published. Written by the distinguished USA Corpus Vitrearum author, Professor Meredith Parsons Lillich, the book discusses the artists who made the windows, the theological functions of … Continue reading →

A stunning two-part exhibition of manuscript illuminations from 1200-1350 has opened at the Getty Museum in California (USA). Running until 13 May it draws on the Museum’s own collections to show a variety of illustrated books ranging from scholastic university … Continue reading →

A £1 million campaign has been launched by Coventry Cathedral to create a  display area for showing important fragments of medieval painted and stained glass. They will be shown in three underground crypts below the adjacent ruins of the former … Continue reading →

A veteran stained glass artist and conservator has been awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the New Years Honours list for his services to architectural stained glass.  Alf Fisher, who was also former stained glass advisor to English Heritage … Continue reading →

The latest issue of Peregrinations, the Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture published by the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art is now on-line here: http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/ Feature articles include: Introduction: Saints & Geography, Margaret Cormack Saints of Medieval … Continue reading →

  The second volume of the Belgian CVMA’s outstanding series devoted to Silver-Stained Roundels and Unipartite Panels before the French Revolution
in Flanders has been published. Compiled by C.J. Berserik, and J Caen, it describes the silver-stained glass roundels and unipartite … Continue reading →

Details have been announced of the latest phases of Canterbury Cathedral’s rolling exhibition of important late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century figures from the south-west transept windows.   The figures originally filled the choir and trinity chapel clerestory windows and were … Continue reading →

This month’s puzzle comes from the parish church of St Oswald at Malpas (Cheshire) [Fig. 1] The panel shows three figures. The figure on the left has his left arm raised. The man and woman on the right appear to … Continue reading →

An important exhibition of the work of the Victorian Pre-Raphaelite artist and stained glass designer, Ford Madox Brown (1821 -1893), has opened at the Manchester Art Gallery in northern England. Madox Brown joined William Morris’s design company (Morris, Marshall, Faulkner … Continue reading →

Two windows at Howden Minster (Yorks) containing fragments of fourteenth-century glass have been damaged by vandals. The police are investigating. The fragments include the arms of Antony Bec (c. 1245 – 1311), Bishop of Durham 1283-1311.