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The glazing from Herkenrode Abbey constitutes the most significant body of Flemish stained glass in the world. Most of it is now in Lichfield Cathedral, and recent conservation has afforded a unique opportunity to study the glass in depth. It is presented here fully, for the first time, in its historical, art-historical and artistic contexts.
List of contents
- PRELIMINARIES
- National Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum (Great Britain)
- National Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum (Belgium)
- Foreword
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Ground Plan of Lichfield Cathedral
- Window Plan
- Glossary
- Note to the Reader
- Abbreviations
- Key to the Restoration Diagrams
- Bibliography
- GENERAL INTRODUCTION
- The Former Abbey of Herkenrode and its Stained Glass
- The Former Abbey of Herkenrode
- The AbBey Church and Its Decoration
- The Herkenrode Glazing: Material History and the Original Scheme
- The Glazing of the Abbess's Private Chapel
- Glazing at Other Locations in the Abbey
- Glazing from the Abbey Conserved in Belgium
- I. LICHFIELD (STAFFORDSHIRE): LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
- History of Lichfield Cathedral from its Origins until the Civil War
- The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral
- The Romanesque Cathedral
- The Gothic Cathedral
- The Civil War
- The Herkenrode Glass at Lichfield: Context, Acquisition, Installation, and Restoration
- Introduction
- The 'Lady Choir'
- Francis Eginton's East Window
- The Herkenrode Offer
- Principal Figures Involved in the Planning
- Evolution of the Plan
- The Crucifixion Panels
- The Herkenrode Glazing and the Lady Chapel
- The Herkenrode Glazing Outside the Lady Chapel
- The Burlison and Grylls Restoration in the Lady Chapel
- The Camm and Winfield Restoration in the Lady Chapel
- Restoration of Herkenrode Glass Outside the Lady Chapel
- Other Late Nineteenth-Century Work
- Camm's Wartime Restoration
- The Herkenrode Glass at Lichfield: Conserving the Lady Chapel Glazing
- The Herkenrode Glazing
- The Need for Conservation and Protection
- Conserving the Glazing
- The Herkenrode Glass at Lichfield: Historical and Art-Historical Analysis
- Scholarly Interest in the Herkenrode Windows at Lichfield Cathedral in the Nineteenth Century
- Locations of the Herkenrode Glazing at Lichfield
- Condition and Authenticity
- Marks, Glaziers' Marks, and Inscriptions
- Iconography
- Technique
- Dating
- Style
- Attribution
- CATALOGUE
- Windows in the Lady Chapel
- Window I
- Window nII
- Window nIII
- Window nIV
- Window sII
- Window sIII
- Window Siv
- Windows Outside the Lady Chapel
- Window nVI
- Window sVI
- Window sXII
- Window sXIII
- Window sXV
- Garland Panel
- II. SHREWSBURY (SHROPSHIRE): CHURCH OF ST MARY
- Architectural and Glazing Overview of the Church
- The Herkenrode Glass at Shrewsbury
- Catalogue: Part of St John from the Crucifixion Window at Herkenrode Abbey Church
- III. ASHTEAD (SURREY): CHURCH OF ST GILES
- Architectural and Glazing Overview of the Church
- The Herkenrode Glass at Ashtead
- Catalogue: The Crucifixion with St George, St Anne with the Virgin as a Child, and St Bernard
- APPENDICES
- Appendix 1. Description of the Medieval Glass in Lichfield Cathedral by Thomas Harwood
- Appendix 2. Documents in the Aartsbisschoppelijk Archief (Mechelen, Belgium) Relating to Lambert Spulberch at Herkenrode
- Appendix 3. Documents in the Rijksarchief (Maastricht, The Netherlands) Relating to Pierre Libotton's Removal of the Herkenrode Abbey Church Glazing
- Appendix 4. Documents in the Lichfield Cathedral Archive Relating to the Herkenrode Glazing and Its Context
- Appendix 5. Genealogy of those Members of the de Lexhy Family Represented in the Herkenrode Glazing
- Appendix 6. Locations at Lichfield Cathedral of Donors' Arms
- Appendix 7. Cold-Painting Applied by Barley Studio to the Herkenrode Glazing in the Lady Chapel at Lichfield Cathedral
- Appendix 8. Glass Erroneously Attributed to Herkenrode
- INDEX
About the author
Yvette Vanden Bemden is a researcher for the study of stained glass in Belgium for the publication of volumes of the Corpus Vitrearum. She is member and former president of the Belgian committee of the Corpus Vitrearum Belgique-België and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium.
Isabelle Lecocq is the chef de travaux at the Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, Brussels, initially in the department for conservation/restoration, now in the Documentation Department - Art History Research and Inventory Unit. She is the Secretary of the Corpus Vitrearum Belgique-België; Secretary of The Royal Academy of Archaeology of Belgium; and a scientific collaborator to the University of Liège (Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Department of Historical Sciences. Art History and Archaeology of Modern Times).
Summary
The glazing from Herkenrode Abbey constitutes the most significant body of Flemish stained glass in the world. Most of it is now in Lichfield Cathedral, and recent conservation has afforded a unique opportunity to study the glass in depth. It is presented here fully, for the first time, in its historical, art-historical and artistic contexts.
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It makes an important contribution to the study of Netherlandish drawings and other media, to the history of sixteenth-century monastic patronage, and to the understanding of the history of trade, collecting, and the international transport of sixteenth-century Netherlandish art works in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition, the authors highlight the importance of stained-glass design in the career of a major figure, Pieter Coecke van Aelst. By integrating stained glass into the wider context of painting, drawing, and printmaking of the period, this excellent study helps clarify our view of the Netherlands in the first half of the sixteenth century, and will be of great interest to all scholars of Northern European art.
