The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford
Tim Ayers
The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford
Tim Ayers
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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.
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.
This book is an essential resource for medieval art and architectural historians which suggests the importance of university colleges as institutional patrons. ... The book is a magnum opus of its kind, which sets an extremely high standard for future CVMA publications and will remain the authoritative work on the subject for many years to come.
Ayers has provided an astonishingly comprehensive context for the Merton stained glass. He is equally at home with the religious, intellectual and political setting of Merton within the English polity, with its architectural expression, and with the technical and physical properties of glass, its painting and its fixing ... This is a book which will have an impact well beyond the study of medieval stained glass. It has shown that the Merton glass has a significant place in national history.
He has filled in many gaps
Tim Ayers FSA is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art Department and a member of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. He is the author of The Medieval Stained Glass of Wells Cathedral, 2 vols, (British Academy, 2004), and recently edited the medieval volume in the three-volume History of British Art, 600-1600 (Tate, 2008). He is Vice-President of the International Board of the Corpus Vitrearum.
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.
This book is an essential resource for medieval art and architectural historians which suggests the importance of university colleges as institutional patrons. ... The book is a magnum opus of its kind, which sets an extremely high standard for future CVMA publications and will remain the authoritative work on the subject for many years to come.
Ayers has provided an astonishingly comprehensive context for the Merton stained glass. He is equally at home with the religious, intellectual and political setting of Merton within the English polity, with its architectural expression, and with the technical and physical properties of glass, its painting and its fixing ... This is a book which will have an impact well beyond the study of medieval stained glass. It has shown that the Merton glass has a significant place in national history.
He has filled in many gaps
Tim Ayers FSA is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art Department and a member of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. He is the author of The Medieval Stained Glass of Wells Cathedral, 2 vols, (British Academy, 2004), and recently edited the medieval volume in the three-volume History of British Art, 600-1600 (Tate, 2008). He is Vice-President of the International Board of the Corpus Vitrearum.