MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL11.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop - Anton Woensam?
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Inv. 59.183.2
Size	71.8x83.2
Provenance	Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location	New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Stanley Mortimer
Bibliography	VP1:5:26 (PL185:242); Paffrath 1984, 61-3; Eckert 1953, 69
	Stuudies in the History of Art 1985, 15:150; Paris 1990, 287; Hayward 1971/2
Illustration From	photo - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other illustrations	Paffrath 1984, ill 12; Studies in the History of Art 1985, 15:150
	Eckert 1953, pl 10; Paris 1990, 160-1 & ill 235;Hayward 1971/2
Country	Germany

Description:
c 1525. Scene from c 1116 of the vision of Bernard while in prayer between Vigils and Lauds of a multitude of people all variously dressed and from various walks of life coming down from the surrounding hills and filling the whole valley, a vision of the great numbers who joined Clairvaux and filled its novitiate to such an extent that new monasteries were constantlay having to be founded, a vision which was fulfilled. Bernard is seen coming out of the church accompanied by a monk holding Bernard's crozier. He is greeting a large number among whom are noblemen and peasants, scholars, canons and black Benedictine monks. The scroll indicates the words he spoke to them: 'Si ad ea, quae intus sunt, festinatis, hic foras dimitte corpora, quae de seculo attulistis. Soli spiritus ingrediantur, nam caro non prodest quicquam' (If you are hastening to the things of the spirit, put on one side the things of the flesh which you have taken from the world. Only those who are of the spirit may enter, for the flesh does not profit all').

Description:

c 1525. Scene from c 1116 of the vision of Bernard while in prayer between Vigils and Lauds of a multitude of people all variously dressed and from various walks of life coming down from the surrounding hills and filling the whole valley, a vision of the great numbers who joined Clairvaux and filled its novitiate to such an extent that new monasteries were constantlay having to be founded, a vision which was fulfilled. Bernard is seen coming out of the church accompanied by a monk holding Bernard's crozier. He is greeting a large number among whom are noblemen and peasants, scholars, canons and black Benedictine monks. The scroll indicates the words he spoke to them: 'Si ad ea, quae intus sunt, festinatis, hic foras dimitte corpora, quae de seculo attulistis. Soli spiritus ingrediantur, nam caro non prodest quicquam' (If you are hastening to the things of the spirit, put on one side the things of the flesh which you have taken from the world. Only those who are of the spirit may enter, for the flesh does not profit all').