An Introduction to Stained Glass Conservation - HOA00043M

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  • Department: History of Art
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23 to Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

  • To equip students with core craft and technical skills relating to stained glass manufacture and conservation
  • To prepare students for the workshop placements in the summer term/summer vacation
  • To complement their historical and art historical studies by ensuring a familiarity with the physical evidence of historical techniques and approaches, thereby building an ability to recognise them in historic artefacts
  • To introduce students to the professional sphere and to support them in networking with their practitioner peers (master-class participation)

Module learning outcomes

  • Mastery of techniques of cutting, glazing, leading, glass-painting
  • Command of range of documentation techniques
  • Selection of appropriate conservation methods (cleaning, edge-bonding, infills etc) and an ability to deploy them appropriately
  • Ability to document a project from start to finish

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 50.0
Practical 50.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 50.0
Practical 50.0

Module feedback

Brief written and/or oral feedback on formative assessment during course of module

Written mark and comments on summative assessment

Indicative reading

Brown, Sarah and Strobl, Sebastian, A Fragile Inheritance, The care of stained glass and historic glazing: a handbook for custodians (London 2002)

Corpus Vitrearum, Guidelines for the Conservation and Restoration of Stained Glass Second edition (Nuremberg 2004)

Online at www.cvma.ac.uk/conserv/index.html

Elskus, Albinus, The Art of Painting on Glass (New York 1980)

Harris, Martyn Stanton, Practising Stained Glass Safely (Sheffield 2000)

Isabelle Pallot-Frossard (ed.), Manuel de conservation, restauration et cr ©ation de vitraux (Minist ¨re de la culture et de la communication France), Paris 2006; PDF online: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/organisation/dapa/pdf/manuel_vitrail.pdf

Rauch, Ivo, The Conservation and Restoration of Stained Glass: An Introduction to the Problems (online at www.cvma.ac.uk/conserv/index.html)

San Casciani, Paul, The Techniques of Decorative Staiend Glass (London 1985, with subsequent editions)

Whall, Christopher, Stained Glass Work (London 1905/reprint Bristol 1999, Wexford 2005)