MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL63.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	78x65
Provenance	St Apern Nuns' Abbey, Cologne, cloister
Present Location	Cologne, Cathedral
Bibliography	VP1:12:57 (PL185:258); Paffrath 1984, 88-90
	Rode 1974, 164 & 167; Aachen 1981, 607; Posset 2003, 272-3
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 20
Other illustrations	Rode 1974, ill 421
	Aachen 1981, 607; Winkler 2000, 11; Posset 2003, 271
Country	Germany

Description:
1525. Bernard's vision of coming before the judgment throne of God. A rare representation of the Trinity in the form of three human figures. Bernard kneels to the left, the grey bearded figure of the devil on the right making his claim to Bernard. Unusually for the Cologne glass the figure of Bernard is not nimbed, perhaps because of being in the the presence of the three nimbed figures of the Trinity. The equivalent Altenberg panel is lost.

Description:

1525. Bernard's vision of coming before the judgment throne of God. A rare representation of the Trinity in the form of three human figures. Bernard kneels to the left, the grey bearded figure of the devil on the right making his claim to Bernard. Unusually for the Cologne glass the figure of Bernard is not nimbed, perhaps because of being in the the presence of the three nimbed figures of the Trinity. The equivalent Altenberg panel is lost.