MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL10.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	65x84
Provenance	Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location	Shrewsbury, England, St Mary's Church, north window
Bibliography	VP1:5:25 (PL185:241-2); LA 211-2; Paffrath 1984, 58-60; Hunt 1951, 14
	Eckert 1953, 68; France 1998, 41; Paris 1990, 287
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 11
Other illustrations	France 1998, ill 22
	Paris 1990, ill 234
Country	Germany

Description:
1505/32. Scene showing Bernard being commissioned in 1115 by his abbot, Stephen Harding, to found a new monastery, Clairvaux. Stephen is is shown at the gate of Citeaux in a white habit, nimbed, and carrying a crozier. Bernard kneels before his abbot who hands him a crozier, the symbol of his authority as abbot of a new convent, some of whose members stand behind Bernard. On the right some lay workers are seen in the process of building the new monastery. The inscription below describes the scene and is taken almost verbatim from the 'Vita Prima'.

Description:

1505/32. Scene showing Bernard being commissioned in 1115 by his abbot, Stephen Harding, to found a new monastery, Clairvaux. Stephen is is shown at the gate of Citeaux in a white habit, nimbed, and carrying a crozier. Bernard kneels before his abbot who hands him a crozier, the symbol of his authority as abbot of a new convent, some of whose members stand behind Bernard. On the right some lay workers are seen in the process of building the new monastery. The inscription below describes the scene and is taken almost verbatim from the 'Vita Prima'.