MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL58.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance	St Apern Nuns' Abbey, Cologne, cloister
Present Location	Shrewsbury, England, St Mary's Church, west window
Bibliography	VP1:2:4 (PL185:229); Paffrath 1984, 33-6
	Eckert 1953, 61; Paris 1990, 286
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 3a
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 3; Paris 1990, ill 230

Country	Germany

Description:
1525. Bernard's vision of the Nativity. The scene is his parents' house. On the left Bernard's mother, Aleth, sits with a rosary in her hands. The young Bernard in lay clothes is asleep sitting next to her. Facing them is an altar and in the background there are two men in a doorway. Above Bernard's head is a medallion containing a coat of arms but which would formerly have contained a Nativity scene, the subject of Bernard's vision, in the same way as the corresponding scene from the Altenberg cloister (see GL03). Bernard's halo is not the conventional round disc but a more restrained band of yellow surrounding his head.

Description:

1525. Bernard's vision of the Nativity. The scene is his parents' house. On the left Bernard's mother, Aleth, sits with a rosary in her hands. The young Bernard in lay clothes is asleep sitting next to her. Facing them is an altar and in the background there are two men in a doorway. Above Bernard's head is a medallion containing a coat of arms but which would formerly have contained a Nativity scene, the subject of Bernard's vision, in the same way as the corresponding scene from the Altenberg cloister (see GL03). Bernard's halo is not the conventional round disc but a more restrained band of yellow surrounding his head.