MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL62


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	VP1:7:32 (PL185:246); Paffrath 1984, 84-7
	Eckert 1953, 75; Rode 1974, 164 & 167; France 1998, 41-2; Aachen 1981, 607
Illustration From	Winkler 2000, 9
Other illustrations	Paffrath 1984, ill 19a
	Rode 1974, ill 417; France 1998, ill 23; Aachen 1981, 606
Country	Germany

Description:
1525. The scene of Bernard on his sick bed with his crozier under his arm and surrounded by the community as well as an abbot, probably William of St Thierry, who in the 'Vita Prima' says that he was present although he is shown as a Cistercian but was at the time a Benedictine and should therefore have been depicted in a black cowl. The artist was probably unaware of the finer details of the monastic habit. The composition is almost identical to that of the Altenberg panel (see GL18).

Description:

1525. The scene of Bernard on his sick bed with his crozier under his arm and surrounded by the community as well as an abbot, probably William of St Thierry, who in the 'Vita Prima' says that he was present although he is shown as a Cistercian but was at the time a Benedictine and should therefore have been depicted in a black cowl. The artist was probably unaware of the finer details of the monastic habit. The composition is almost identical to that of the Altenberg panel (see GL18).