MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL05.jpg

Category Glass
Origin: artist/workshop Cologne workshop
Date 16C/1
Reference No
Size 68x68
Provenance Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location Cologne, Schnuetgen Museum
Bibliography VP1:3:7 (PL185:230-1); LA 210; Paffrath 1984, 40-1

Eckert 1953, 62
Illustration From Paffrath 1984, ill 5
Other illustrations Eckert 1953, pl 5

Paris 1990, 157
Country Germany
Description:
1510/32. Scene from c 1110 of Bernard being tempted by a naked girl. Bernard ignored her. She then started stroking him but he still ignored her, and eventually she gave up and fled. She is shown in the bed in which Bernard has yielded her the space, turned round and gone to sleep. On the right she is seen leaving.