MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL60.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	90x80
Provenance	St Apern Nuns' Abbey, Cologne, cloister
Present Location	Cologne, Cathedral
Bibliography	VP1:4:19 (PL185:237-8); Paffrath 1984, 52-4
	Eckert 1953, 67; Rode 1974, 164 &166; France 1998, 86; Aachen 1981, 605-6
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 9a
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 9; Rode 1974, ill 412 & 414
	France 1998, ill 46; Aachen 1981, 606; Winkler 2000, 5
Country	Germany

Description:
1525. The scene of Bernard, nimbed and shown as a young novice on the right, being reprimanded by his abbot Stephen Harding shown in a frontal position of authority in the centre although, significantly, not shown nimbed like his errant novice. Like the six other novices depicted Bernard is shown wearing the mantle worn by novices as opposed to the cowl, the habit worn by professed monks and shown here worn by the abbot. Compare this with the same scene from Altenberg, very differently treated (see GL08).

Description:

1525. The scene of Bernard, nimbed and shown as a young novice on the right, being reprimanded by his abbot Stephen Harding shown in a frontal position of authority in the centre although, significantly, not shown nimbed like his errant novice. Like the six other novices depicted Bernard is shown wearing the mantle worn by novices as opposed to the cowl, the habit worn by professed monks and shown here worn by the abbot. Compare this with the same scene from Altenberg, very differently treated (see GL08).