The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey

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Yvette Vanden Bemden (University of Namur) Isabelle Lecocq (Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage, Brussels)

The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey

Yvette Vanden Bemden (University of Namur), Isabelle Lecocq (Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage, Brussels)

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Oxford University Press
12 August 2021

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Museums & museology; History; Archaeology; Local history

Series: Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain

The sixteenth-century glazing from Herkenrode Abbey in Belgium constitutes the most significant body of Flemish stained glass in the world. In the early nineteenth century, an English aristocrat took advantage of the secularization of the monasteries on the Continent to purchase the abbey church's glazing; glass from the abbess's private chapel was acquired by another English aristocrat. This account of the glazing, the result of a unique and fruitful collaboration between the Corpus Vitrearum in Great Britain and Belgium, has sections on the three locations in England where the glass is now located - Lichfield, Shrewsbury, and Ashtead - prefaced by a historical introduction on Herkenrode Abbey. It benefits from extensive research into artistic practice in the Low Countries (for art-historical context), draws on the rich documentation in the Lichfield Cathedral archives (for the glass's reception in England), and presents the insights gained during recent conservation of the glass at Lichfield Cathedral (for the glazing's execution and condition).

By: Yvette Vanden Bemden (University of Namur), Isabelle Lecocq (Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage, Brussels)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 2.778kg
ISBN: 9780197267189
ISBN 10: 0197267181
Series: Corpus Vitraearum Medii Aevi: Great Britain
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 12 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey

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. * Ellen Konowitz, HISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART REVIEWS *