MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL33.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	113x76
Provenance	Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location	war loss 1939/45
Bibliography	EM 2:18 (Griesser 1961, 112-3); Paffrath 1984, 136-8
	Eckert 1953, 99
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 36
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 21

Country	Germany

Description:
1505/32. Strictly speaking this does not belong to the iconography of Bernard as he is only depicted by his footprint, but it is included as it forms part of this most extensive of all Bernard cycles. A blind man is healed when he kneels down to kiss the footprint in the dust. The scroll has him saying: 'Obsecro vos per misericordiam Dei, ducite me ad locum illum, in quo Hominem Dei stetisse' (I beg you by the mercy of God to lead me to the place where you know that the man of God has stood').

Description:

1505/32. Strictly speaking this does not belong to the iconography of Bernard as he is only depicted by his footprint, but it is included as it forms part of this most extensive of all Bernard cycles. A blind man is healed when he kneels down to kiss the footprint in the dust. The scroll has him saying: 'Obsecro vos per misericordiam Dei, ducite me ad locum illum, in quo Hominem Dei stetisse' (I beg you by the mercy of God to lead me to the place where you know that the man of God has stood').