Bernhard wins aristocratic tournament guests
Bernhard wins aristocratic tournament guests with a magic drink for the Cistercian order , a lead glass window is called, which was created between 1505 and 1532 for the cloister of the Altenberg monastery . It has been in the Schnütgen Museum since 1932 and has inventory no. M 569.
origin
The pane is one of the panes of the cloister of Altenberg Abbey, which was expanded in 1806 . It came into the collection of the wine merchant Johann Heinrich Pelpissen (1731–1810) in Cologne and was given to his daughter Maria Franziska Hirn nee. Pelpissen (1765-1833) inherited. At the auction in 1824, the disk came into the collection of Matthias Joseph de Noël , who gave it to the city of Cologne along with other works of art in 1852/53.
description
The disc comes from a cycle about the life of St. Bernard , it is approx. 71 cm wide and 69 cm high. The two scenes are separated by the red column in the middle. On the left, Bernhard has an elderly monk give the knights a drink. The two banners in Latin translate as: “Drink the potion of souls” and “I trust in God. He will give me the truce that you refuse. ”On the right-hand scene, the knights return and enter the monastery. Bernhard dresses the first in a robe .
The lower volume, also in Latin, tells the story of the knights who came to Clairvaux on their way to a tournament . Shortly before Lent, Bernhard's request not to use weapons, the knights did not comply. Thereupon Bernhard had the knights handed a beer he had blessed as a drink. When they had already left the monastery, they came back converted and asked to be allowed to enter the monastery.
literature
- Brigitte Lymant: The stained glass of the Schnütgen Museum . Schnütgen Museum, Cologne 1983, p. 193.
- Dagmar Täube : Rhenish glass painting. Renaissance masterpieces. Vol. II catalog, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1944-8 , pp. 52–53.