Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard exhorts the sick in body to enter his church with their spirits, in doing so returning to find their infirmities healed (one of two)
Master of Saint Severin
after 1535 · Stained glass · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
From a set of twenty-two windows, each with six scenes devoted to the Life of Saint Bernard, made for the glazed cloister at Altenberg, near Cologne. Saint Bernard with Clergy and Scholars. The abbot invited a multitude of people to enter his church in spirit, but leaving their bodies behind. Faith would miraculously heal their spirits and mend their infirm bodies. The clergy stand in front of the church; Saint Bernard is in the portal with an inscribed scroll above and to left of his head; behind him stands an attendant with pastoral staff. To the left are two patricians, followed by two monks in brown robes, and four others; at right, three nobles, first in blue, second in red and yellow, with six attendants. The background and the church are in white and beige. The whole scene is set within a foliate arch on columns.
- Artist
- Master of Saint Severin
- Date
- after 1535
- Medium
- Stained glass
- Culture
- German, Cologne
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Stanley Mortimer, 1959
