The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford
Series: Corpus Vitrearum; 6;
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Product details:
- Publisher The British Academy
- Date of Publication 30 May 2013
- Number of Volumes 2 pieces, Two volume box set
- ISBN 9780197265444
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages762 pages
- Size 308x221x25 mm
- Weight 4030 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 colour plates plus 200 other figures 0
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Short description:
This book describes and contextualizes the important medieval stained glass of Merton College, Oxford. The exceptional collection includes fifteen windows in the choir of the chapel and seven in the Old Library which are the earliest to survive from any English library. All of the medieval windows are fully illustrated and recorded.
Long description:
This is the first full study of the important medieval stained glass of Merton College, Oxford. The scheme in the chapel is exceptionally well preserved; with the nave of York Minster, it represents the largest surviving set of early fourteenth-century windows in Britain. Research for this volume in the rich college archives has provided a new date for them, and identified the glazier, whose business is considered locally. Outstanding early fifteenth-century panels from the transepts are attributed to the workshop of Thomas Glazier, who had worked for William of Wykeham, Chancellor of England. Seven windows in the Old Library contain the earliest glazing to survive from any English library. The glass will therefore be of interest to many students of English medieval art and architecture.
A general introduction also explores the potential of the monument for study within a university context. Merton was a model for the self-governing graduate college of the later middle ages in England. The glass invites consideration of the relationship between art and ideas, in a lost astrological window, for example; and the self-presentation of the scholar and college communities, both to themselves and to the society that supported them. As a result of the central place of the universities in national life, the Merton glass was an inspiration during the Gothic revival to artists and glazing businesses such as the Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais, and Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.
The medieval glass is catalogued, fully illustrated and supported with restoration diagrams. There are forty colour plates. The post-medieval glass is also catalogued.
It is the first volume in the British CMVAs series to present the glazing of such an institution: it is hoped there will be more. More
