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Corpus Vitrearum Suisse : les vitraux historiques des collections publiques de la Ville de Genève

Study conducted by Valérie Sauterel, Aude Spicher, Karin von Wartburg

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The manuscript of the reverse glass painter Ulrich Daniel Metzger

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Interiors Reconfigured: Changing Materiality and Craftsmanship in the Decorative Arts of the Middle East and North Africa (18th-20th centuries)

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2022

Concepts and Aesthetics: New Tendencies in Glass Art (20th–21st centuries)

Deadline for submissions: 31 October 2022

The Royal Chapel of Córdoba Revisited

Study conducted by PD Dr Francine Giese, Dr Sarah Keller, Dr Sophie Wolf, Dr Raimundo Ortiz Urbano und Dr Rafael Ortiz-Cordero

Les innovations technologiques et typologiques de l’historicisme

St. Moritz, 14 –15 October 2022

Glass in Museums: Research, Context, Communication

Bildungszentrum Adler, Historisches Museum Thurgau, Frauenfeld, 5 November 2022

Annual report

The 2021 annual report is online.

Gaspard Gsell – Ein Schweizer Pionier der Glasmalerei des Historismus

Bearbeitung: Katrin Kaufmann

Die Glasmalereien des Kantons Basel-Stadt und ihr kulturhistorischer Hintergrund

Research conducted by Sarah Keller, Marion Gartenmeister, Katrin Kaufmann, Laura Hindelang, Sophie Wolf and Karin von Wartburg.

New advances in stained glass research: Materials, production techniques and conservation

Journée suisse de l’historicisme

La deuxième édition de la Journée suisse de l'historicisme sera consacrée à un aspect central de la production artistique et architecturale du XIX^e siècle et de la Belle-Epoque : les transferts artistiques et technologiques dans un contexte de plus en plus globalisé.

Délai : 30 janvier 2021

Luminosity of the East Materiality, Provenance and Reception of Islamic Coloured Glass Windows in the West

The project aims to provide the hitherto lacking art-historical and material analysis of Islamic coloured glass windows (qamarīya) of the 17^th to 19^th centuries within Western museum collections and at World’s Fairs and to critically examine questions about their provenance.

The travel journal and book of recipes of Ulrich Daniel Metzger

Research funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF

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