Resurrection (Victoria and Albert Museum)
The representation of the resurrection is part of a three-lane leaded glass window that was created in 1540/42 for the cloister of the Steinfeld monastery . It has been in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London since 1928 .
origin
After the window in the cloister of the Steinfeld monastery in the Eifel had been removed and reinstalled five times due to the chaos of the war, it was finally removed in 1785. After secularization , it came to England through the art trade in 1802 to Earl Brownlow in Ashridge Park . There the disk (97.2 cm high and 56.5 cm wide) was restored from 1802 to 1811, and finally it was acquired at auction by Ernest E. Cook and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1928, along with many others (Inventory No. C.253-1928) donated in London.
description
In the middle of this former cloister window was the resurrection scene, to the right of which Jonah was shown being spat out by the whale, and to the left of it the apocalyptic Christ. In the foreground the soldiers who are supposed to guard the tomb of Christ have fallen asleep. Christ appears above them in an aureole of clouds, clad only in a dark red cloak, with the cross in his left hand and giving the blessing with the right . The head of Christ is surrounded by a nimbus and the entire upper edge of the picture is filled with a host of angels.
Idol
The representation of the resurrection probably served as a model woodcuts of the Great and Small Passion by Albrecht Dürer from the year 1510th
literature
- Dagmar Täube , Annette Willberg, Reinhard Köpf (eds.): Rhenish glass painting. Renaissance masterpieces. Volume 2: Dagmar Täube: Catalog (= Sigurd Greven Studies. Volume 7). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1944-8 , pp. 398-400.