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Credit value: 10 credits
Credit level: M
Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
See module specification for other years:
2020-212021-22
Module will run
Occurrence
Teaching cycle
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
Assessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework Masterclass Essay
N/A
50
Practical Glazing Project
N/A
50
Special assessment rules
None
Reassessment
Task
Length
% of module mark
Essay/coursework Masterclass Essay
N/A
50
Practical Glazing Project
N/A
50
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)