MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL15.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	VP1:11:52 (PL185:256); LA 217; Paffrath 1984, 76-7
	Eckert 1953, 72; Paris 1990, 288
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 16
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 13
	Paris 1990, ill 238
Country	Germany

Description:
1505/32. Scene from c 1124 of Bernard excommunicating the noisy flies of Foigny. The church at Clairvaux's daughter-house of Foigny was overrun with a multitude of flies as the new church was about to be dedicated. The crisis was solved by Bernard pronouncing the words 'I excommunicate the flies', as indicated by the scroll emanating from his mouth on the left of the panel. He stands before an open door to the church in which a multitude of flies may be seen. Bernard is accompanied by a number of laymen and an abbot carrying a crozier on the far right, presumably the abbot of Foigny. A man is shovelling dead flies out from the church through a door on the right.

Description:

1505/32. Scene from c 1124 of Bernard excommunicating the noisy flies of Foigny. The church at Clairvaux's daughter-house of Foigny was overrun with a multitude of flies as the new church was about to be dedicated. The crisis was solved by Bernard pronouncing the words 'I excommunicate the flies', as indicated by the scroll emanating from his mouth on the left of the panel. He stands before an open door to the church in which a multitude of flies may be seen. Bernard is accompanied by a number of laymen and an abbot carrying a crozier on the far right, presumably the abbot of Foigny. A man is shovelling dead flies out from the church through a door on the right.