MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL61.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	VP1:4:23 -4 (PL185:241-2); Paffrath 1984, 55-7
	Eckert 1953, 67; Rode 1974, 166; France 1998, 194-5; Aachen 1981, 606
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 10a
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 11
	France 1998, ill 136; Paris 1990, 19; Winkler 2000, 7; Jaritz 2000, ill 9
Country	Germany

Description:
1525. The scene of Cistercian field-work with Bernard shown kneeling with hands clasped in prayer at a small Marian wayside shrine, the words of his prayer on the scroll before him: 'O d(omi)ne d(on)a a michi gra(ci)am mete(n)di' (Lord, give me the grace to learn how to harvest). At his feet is his scythe. Four monks, like Bernard in white tunics and black scapulars, are at work, two of them scything and the other two gathering the corn into sheaves. The abbey buildings are in the background. An almost identical panel made in the same Cologne workshop adorned the Altenberg cloister (see GL09).

Description:

1525. The scene of Cistercian field-work with Bernard shown kneeling with hands clasped in prayer at a small Marian wayside shrine, the words of his prayer on the scroll before him: 'O d(omi)ne d(on)a a michi gra(ci)am mete(n)di' (Lord, give me the grace to learn how to harvest). At his feet is his scythe. Four monks, like Bernard in white tunics and black scapulars, are at work, two of them scything and the other two gathering the corn into sheaves. The abbey buildings are in the background. An almost identical panel made in the same Cologne workshop adorned the Altenberg cloister (see GL09).