MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL02.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	138x76
Provenance	Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location	Shrewsbury, England, St Mary's Church, west window
Bibliography	VP1:2:4 (PL185:228); LA 209; Paffrath 1984, 30-2
	Eckert 1953, 59; Paris 1990, 290
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 2
Other illustrations	Eckert 1853, pl 3
	Paris 1990, ill 229
Country	Germany

Description:
1505/32. The scene from c 1103 of Bernard lying on his bed as a child suffering from a headache. A woman was brought in to relieve his suffering by sorcery, but realizing what she had in mind he brushed her aside and threw her out. When he arose the pain had gone. The woman is shown approaching the bed with her harp. Bernard's mother kneels on the left before the fire, and a man (Bernard's father?) kneels on the right. There is a small white dog in the foreground.

Description:

1505/32. The scene from c 1103 of Bernard lying on his bed as a child suffering from a headache. A woman was brought in to relieve his suffering by sorcery, but realizing what she had in mind he brushed her aside and threw her out. When he arose the pain had gone. The woman is shown approaching the bed with her harp. Bernard's mother kneels on the left before the fire, and a man (Bernard's father?) kneels on the right. There is a small white dog in the foreground.