MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL66.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	92x81
Provenance	St Apern Nuns' Abbey, Cologne, cloister
Present Location	Cologne, Cathedral
Bibliography	VP5:2:13 (PL185:359); Paffrath 1984, 186-7
	Eckert 1953, 112; Rode 1974, 168; Aachen 1981, 608-9
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 54
Other illustrations	Eckert 1953, pl 39
	Rode 1974, ill 420; Aachen 1981, 607
Country	Germany

Description:
1525. The scene of Bernard being carried up to heaven by two angels above a landscape showing Clairvaux. It is the same two angels depicted in the deathbed scene by Joerg Breu in the Zwettl altarpiece where they are floating above Bernard awaiting to take his soul with them to heaven (see PA44). The scene is repeated in the upper half of the Altenberg panel depicting Bernard on his sick bed (see GL18).

Description:

1525. The scene of Bernard being carried up to heaven by two angels above a landscape showing Clairvaux. It is the same two angels depicted in the deathbed scene by Joerg Breu in the Zwettl altarpiece where they are floating above Bernard awaiting to take his soul with them to heaven (see PA44). The scene is repeated in the upper half of the Altenberg panel depicting Bernard on his sick bed (see GL18).