MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL46.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop - Anton Woensam?
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Inv. 59.183.1
Size	71.8x83.2
Provenance	Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location	New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Stanley Mortimer
Bibliography	VP4:8:48 (PL185:349); Paffrath 1984, 174-6
	Eckert 1953, 107; Paris 1990, 290-1; Studies in the History of Art 1985, 15:150
Illustration From	photo - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other illustrations	Paffrath 1984, ill 49; Paris 1990, 55 & ill 246
	Studies in the History of Art 1985, 15:150
Country	Germany

Description:
c 1525. Following a healing Bernard settles a dispute between Bishop Stephen and Duke Mathias of Lorraine in Metz in 1153. Bernard is seen, accompanied by a monk carrying his crozier, between the adversaries on an island. In the background on the other side of the river a cavalry and pikemen are massed ready for battle.