medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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Andrew Kirkman
Rosemary Hayes-Milligan & Andrew Milligan wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> I thought this might interest this list.
> Rosemary Hayes
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> Stained glass has been the Cinderella of the medieval arts, largely
> because the material is so little known. Yet during the Middle Ages it
> was a highly prestigious vehicle for a wide variety of images,
> brightly coloured and brilliantly lit, as the famous surviving
> examples in York Minster, Canterbury Cathedral or King’s College
> Chapel in Cambridge still show today.
> Following a major digitisation project many of the surviving examples
> of medieval stained glass in Great Britain are now available to view
> online. Over 15,000 digitised photographs from the archive of the
> Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) have been added to the AHDS Visual
> Arts image catalogue at: http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/
>
> The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA), or the survey of medieval
> stained glass, was founded in 1949 as an international research
> project which aims to publish everything that survives. The CVMA has
> committees in 14 countries and over 65 printed volumes have been
> published so far. In Great Britain, the CVMA is a British Academy
> research project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art. The
> photographic archive of the CVMA is housed at the public archive of
> English Heritage, the National Monuments Record, and a large
> proportion of the archive has now been digitised and made available
> online with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
> With the addition of the CVMA collection, the number of digital images
> available via AHDS Visual Arts now totals around 80,000 images. The
> images of medieval stained glass can now be cross-searched with other
> related collections, such as the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in
> Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) and the Public Monuments and Sculpture
> Association’s (PMSA) National Recording Project. These high quality
> digital images are all freely available for use in research, learning
> and teaching.
> Search the CVMA collection and the entire AHDS Visual Arts image
> catalogue at:
> http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/
> For more information about the CVMA see:
> http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/CVMA.html
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