MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL50.jpg

Category Glass
Origin: artist/workshop Cologne workshop
Date 16C/1
Reference No
Size 35x20 (fragment)
Provenance Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location war loss 1939/45
Bibliography EM2:7 (Griesser 1961, 102-3); Paffrath 1984, 192-3 ;posset 2003, 392

Eckert 1953, 39
Illustration From Paffrath 1984, ill 56
Other illustrations Eckert 1953, pl 46 ;posset 2003, 393

Country Germany
Description:
1505/32. Although only a fragment this is so clearly an Amplexus picture that it has been included. The scene is witnessed by a monk, as in the literary account, and an angel.