LaFarge Stained Glass in New England: A Digital Guide

WEBSITE: http://library.bc.edu/lafargeglass/

This project was developed in partnership with Boston College University Libraries to complement an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. 

Stained Glass Sundials

Looking for some web surfing during the sunny summer months, my pick is to explore stained glass sundials from ancient to modern times on this website: http://www.advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Stained_Glass/

The "Image archive" documents historic examples and there is also a link to design and construction when you're ready to build one for yourself.

LECTURE: Chartres and the Rhetoric of Gothic Cathedrals

American Friends of Chartres, the Standing Committee of Medieval Studies of Harvard University and the patronage of the Consul General of France in Boston, invite you to a lecture by Paul Crossley, Professor Emeritus of the Courtauld Institute of  Art of London University on Chartres and the Rhetoric of Gothic Cathedrals, Tuesday March 12, 2013 at 5:30pm, at the Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachussetts.  The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation of American Friends of Chartres activities and projects (the website: www.friendsofchartres.org is being updated) and a photographic presentation by Art Sacré Photographers, Dennis and PJ Aubrey.

Gotta love that Jungendstil

As you may have guessed from today's posts I'm Google searching "Stained Glass Saints". Here's an image that caught my eye from a photosharing site: 500px
Kirche am Steinhof (also called the Church of St. Leopold) in Vienna - Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirche_am_Steinhof
Photo by Mario Traar
It was designed by Koloman Moser

Here are some other windows in the church:

ceiling

Opalescent never looked so good!

Issue 63 of Vidimus

Issue 63 of Vidimus, the first this autumn, is on line now at http://vidimus.org/.

We have much of interest in our News page, with the appointment of a new Curator for the Stained Glass Museum, updates about the conservation of the Herkenrode glass at Lichfield Cathedral, and news from the recent international Corpus Vitrearum colloquium in Vienna. We have another fascinating Feature, on seventeenth-century glass associated with Winchester Cathedral by Geoffrey Lane, an expert on the period, and instead of a Books page this month we have an update on our recent feature on the beautiful glass at Hatton.

Anna Eavis, Editor

Software could reconstruct medieval mosaics

Project to conserve Coventry’s 5,000 stained-glass fragments—some believed to be the work of a master

By Robert Bevan. Conservation, Issue 237, July-August 2012
Published online: 05 July 2012

The pieces were stored next to the cathedral’s boiler

Experimental software developed to reassemble Cold War documents may soon shed light on the mysteries surrounding around 5,000 medieval stained-glass fragments from Coventry Cathedral, as well as on the work of John Thornton, one of England’s greatest stained-glass artists. The British arm of the World Monuments Fund is funding a project to prevent the glass from deteriorating.

More:http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Software-could-reconstruct-medieval-mosaics/26758

Care and Conservation of Historic Windows Workshop: Oct. 3-4, 2012

Care and Conservation of Historic Windows Workshop: Oct. 3-4, 2012This two-day intensive workshop offered by the Association of Preservation Technology takes place at Savannah Technical College in Georgia. In addition to hands-on work, participants will perform a conditional assessment on the windows of a local historic church. Registrations accepted for Workshop, or Workshop Plus Annual Conference.

Read more about the workshop and the Conference.

In addition, there is a longer form article of interest related to the workshop. 

Clara Driscoll & the Tiffany Girls

Tiffany Studios Designers
Under Louis Comfort Tiffany’s patriarchal leadership, teams of skilled designers and craftspeople helped transform his broad vision into beautiful objects that captivated an era. This fact of art production at Tiffany Studios has recently attracted enormous public interest thanks to one Tiffany manager and designer—a talented woman by the name of Clara Driscoll (1861–1944).

Read more here:http://www.morsemuseum.org/louis-comfort-tiffany/tiffany-studios-designers

Members attending the AGG Conference in St. Augustine, May 2013 can join a bus excursion to the Morse Museum.

TATE Britian: Pre-Raphaelites opens to the public

Combining rebellion, beauty, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, thePre-Raphaelites constitute Britain’s first modern art movement. This exhibition brings together over 150 works in different media, including painting, sculpture, photography and the applied arts, revealing the Pre-Raphaelites to be advanced in their approach to every genre. Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) rebelled against the art establishment of the mid-nineteenth century, taking inspiration from early Renaissance painting.

The exhibition establishes the PRB as an early example of the avant-garde: painters who self-consciously overturned orthodoxy and established a new benchmark for modern painting and design. It will include many famous Pre-Raphaelite works, and will also re-introduce some rarely seen masterpieces including Ford Madox Brown’s polemical Work 1852–65 and the 1858 wardrobe designed by Philip Webb and painted by Edward Burne-Jones on the theme of The Prioress’s Tale.

You’ll also see John Everett Millais’s first painting ‘en plein air’ entitled: Ferdinand Lured by Ariel 1849-50 and the politically charged: A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew’s Day, refusing to shield himself from danger by wearing the Roman Catholic Badge 1851-2.

The exhibition shows that the Pre-Raphaelite environment was widely encompassing in its reach across the fine and decorative arts, in response to a fast-changing religious and political backdrop, and in its relationship to women practitioners

LINKS:http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/pre-raphaelites-opens-public

You can find many more images from the show on Tate’s Pre-Raphaelite Pinterest board. If you do visit the show, please leave us a comment below or join the discussion on Tate’s Facebook page or@Tate on Twitter - using the tag #PreRaph.

Exhibition Announced

TIFFANY LAMPS: ARTICLES OF UTILITY, OBJECTS OF ART

June 12th, 2012 through September 9th, 2012

Second Floor

Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts

This exhibition celebrates Louis Comfort Tiffany’s (1848-1933) revolutionary contributions to modern decorative lighting. More than 40 lamps in an array of colors, sizes and decorative styles are featured in sections exploring the themes of fabrication, design, lighting technologies, and affordability. The show also includes tools, materials and period photographs to demonstrate how the lamps were made.

The exhibition is the first in-depth look at the Tiffany Studios’ deliberate efforts to produce lamps that balance artistry with utility and profitability. As articles of utility, reading lamps, floor lamps, and hanging shades came in a wide variety of sizes and shapes to regulate and direct light. As objects of art, the lamps, with their interplay of colored glass and richly sculpted bronze, brought beauty into the home.

The exhibit is organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City.

Premier summer sponsor: MassMutual Financial Group.

More Tiffany and Art Glass Exhibitions

In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows
Contemporary Sparkle: Art Glass from the Permanent Collection
50th Anniversary Celebration of Studio Glass: Pioneers of Studio Glass
Tiffany-Engraved Firearms
Tiffany Stained Glass Windows

Sacred Art Pilgrim

Kohan's collage inspired by stained glass & mosaic

I stumbled upon this website while researching reverse glass painting. While there is no "stained glass" to be  seen here, site author John Kohan explores the Christian sacred art of many cultures, often trying his hand at working in those techniques. His writings about his journey is compelling. Here is some of the work Kohan has collected on his website: Sacred Art Pilgrim

Romanian reverse painted glass icon

Cuban graphic art

Mexican woodcut

Medieval glass of St. Michael’s, Coventry

Public viewing of the conservation of the medieval stained glass of St. Michael’s, Coventry

Hidden from public view for 70 years, the salvaged medieval glass of St. Michael’s, Coventry is being bought back to life via an innovative joint project between World Monuments Fund Britain and Coventry Cathedral. 

Visitors will be able to see first-hand the delicate conservation of this stunning glass, meet conservators and understand the history, and future, of this glass. 

Both children and adults alike will be encouraged to observe to understand the part this glass plays in the wider project to rejuvenate Coventry’s Cathedral Quarter and the part they can play.

30 minute conservator talk every Thursday at 3pm (Learning Space 3) 

http://www.theherbert.org/index.php/home/whats-on/faces-in-the-glass-live

Virtual Tour of Canterbury Cathedral

The most visited post on this blog was the virtual tour of Köln Cathedral. Therefore here is another offering for the armchair tourist - Canterbury.

Go explore: here

Old films on British Stained Glass

STAINED GLASS

CEMENTED STAINED GLASS

From Here: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stained-glass/query/stained+glass

Virtual Tour of Köln Cathedral

View a virtual tour of all the windows in the Köln Cathedral here:
http://www.koelner-dom.de/fenster.html?&L=1

This is a restoration approach not the work of censors!

Greetings from Paderborn!

...we discussed a recently finished project - it is an uncommon way of a reconstruction. So, we thought we can introduce this new approach to interested colleges.

The church of Lessines, Belgium had two stained glass windows, which were in very bad condition - some panels survived only as fragments. The missing parts had been so extensive, that we thought a historic imitation would not be the right way of closing those areas. At one point we discussed an unusual way of showing the new parts in an aesthetic way without interference the original. Finally we used a modern pixel-technique similar to a technique, which is often used in reconstruction and touch in of wall paintings.

In application for a stained glass window this was totally new for us. Attached you will find some pictures of our result.

We think it works very well and hope it inspires you in your future work.

We hope to see you soon.

Best wishes,

Markus Kleine & Steffen Holtmann

Glasmalerei Peters GmbH

Verrier - links

A Glasgow studio working in stained glass, kiln formed glass, acid etching, and sandblasting.

http://verrier-glass.blogspot.com/

This website from Verrier has sections on artwork, workshops, tips, and historic glass 

New to stained glass? Check out the TIPS especially the series on design with titles like:

Designing for Strength

Responsive Colour Selection

Beautiful Design Lines

Design Sources

and...

http://verrier-processes.blogspot.com/

Processes

Processes relating to mould making for glass, glass casting, stained glass working, kiln forming and other practices are described.

Finally...

http://verrier-glass-appreciation.blogspot.com/

Glass Appreciation

The Michelin Man

http://www.bibendum.co.uk/

Nancy Nicholson asked about this image and here is a reply from Tom Krepcio:

I remember seeing this image years ago, and was amazed that it came from 1911.
It's in a restauraunt in London. There is another one with bibendum on a bicycle.
They also have a pdf explaining some of the history of the windows,

Curiously, it does not mention (at first glance anyway) who did the windows, but it does say what posters the art is based on.

http://www.michelinonline.co.uk/centenary/downloads/Michelin%20House-final.pdf

Happy Thanksgiving

When it comes to "Glass Turkeys" this is about as good as it get's so let's look instead at "Glass in Turkey":

http://www.glassfurnace.org/en/glass-in-turkey

Stretching the connection even further we have: Nov 25 is the Saint's day of St Catherine of Alexandria (which is in the part of Egypt controlled by the Turks during the Ottoman Empire)

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/deerhurst-church-photos/slides/d-4612.htm

Can you say - Suger?

http://www.athenapub.com/14suger.htm

Noble is the work, but the work which shines here so nobly should lighten the hearts so that, through true lights they can reach the one true light, where Christ is the true door… the dull spirit rises up through the material to the truth, and although he was cast down before, he arises new when he has seen this light.

Follow this link to finally learn to pronounce his name in French!