LaFarge @ Detroit Institute of Art

Reposted from LOOKING AT GLASS:
Today I am looking at the Helping Angel Stained Glass Panel at the Detroit Institute of Art.  The John LaFarge panel is dated 1890 and was formerly installed in the Unitarian Church, Woodward Avenue at Edmund Place, Detroit, Michigan.

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

Fall 2012: Stained Glass Tours & Workshops at Glencairn Museum

Glencairn Museum. Bryn Athyn PA

September 29, 2012 – TOUR/DEMO: Stained Glass in the Icon Style

Using the unique collection of the Glencairn Museum this tour will explore the relationship between Byzantine Icons and sacred images depicted in stained glass windows. Are icons, as devotional objects, relegated to panel painting only or do stained glass panels, when painted in the Byzantine icon style, also function in that role? We will discuss the meaning of iconography and iconoclasm and discover how sacred images have incited emotions across time. A demonstration of glass painting techniques will round out the day.

Tour/Demo: Behind the scenes tour and painting demo with J. Kenneth Leap

FEE: $35pp 
DATE: Sept 29, 1-4PM

Maximum Size: 10

Register at Glencairn 
Contact Doreen Carey at  267-502-2981 or doreen.carey@glencairnmuseum.org 

November 10 & 17, 2012 – WORKSHOP: Stained Glass in the Icon Style

This class will introduce traditional techniques of glass painting used by stained glass artisans in the medieval and renaissance period. Participants will produce a small panel during the workshop. Students will learn to mix and apply glass based pigments. Proper brush techniques will be covered in detail. All materials provided. No experience necessary.

Students will make a panel like this

FEE: $225 

Class length: 2 Days

DATES: November 10 & 17, 2012

Daily schedule: Saturday 12:00 – 4:30 PM

Maximum Class Size: 10

Register at Glencairn 
Contact Doreen Carey at  267-502-2981 or doreen.carey@glencairnmuseum.org 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

J. Kenneth Leap has been painting on glass for 25 years. He currently holds a position of President of the American Glass Guild. He is the Stained Glass Artist in Residence at  Glencairn Museum. He is an associate artist at the Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center in Millville, NJ where he maintains a studio and offers additional classes. He teaches at Bryn Athyn College. For more information please visit www.jkennethleap.com.

ABOUT GLENCAIRN:

Glencairn, located in Bryn Athyn, PA was the home of Raymond and Mildred Pitcairn, built in the Romanesque style between 1928 and 1939. Glencairn now serves as a museum of the history of religion. The museum houses an extraordinary collection of French medieval stained glass panels on par with the finest examples in the Cloisters or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more information about Glencairn visit www.glencairnmuseum.org

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.

"Sacred Visions" Opening reception

Visit the International Museum of Art & Science's Facebook page to view their album from the "Sacred Visions" opening reception, which includes installation shots of the windows:

View the Gallery

International Museum of Art & Science

1900 Nolana Avenue

McAllen, TX 78504

p. (956) 682-0123

Neustadt Collection on Facebook

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