MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL52.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	45x78
Provenance	Altenberg Cistercian Abbey, cloister
Present Location	whereabouts unknown
Bibliography	Paffrath 1984, 199-201
	Eckert 1953, 125
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 59
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 43

Country	Germany

Description:
1505/32. Evidence from Altenberg of the cult of the saints depicting the Virgin in the company of three saints, from left, John the Evangelist, Ignatius of Antioch, and Bernard. Bernard has a crozier and a book in his left hand and a reliquary in his right, Ignatius has a lion at his feet indicating that he owed his martyr's death to a lion, and John is depicted with his traditional attribute of a chalice.

Description:

1505/32. Evidence from Altenberg of the cult of the saints depicting the Virgin in the company of three saints, from left, John the Evangelist, Ignatius of Antioch, and Bernard. Bernard has a crozier and a book in his left hand and a reliquary in his right, Ignatius has a lion at his feet indicating that he owed his martyr's death to a lion, and John is depicted with his traditional attribute of a chalice.