Bernhard's temptation by the girl
Bernhard's temptation by the girl is part of a leaded glass window from the Bernhard cycle of Altenberg Abbey , which was created between 1502 and 1532 for the cloister of Altenberg Monastery . It has been in the Schnütgen Museum since 1932 and has inventory no. M 565.
origin
The pane was one of the panes of the cloister of Altenberg Abbey that was removed 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. 73 cm wide and 67.8 cm high. Bernhard is supposed to be seduced again by a young girl who is lying in his bed without clothes. Bernhard resists the temptation and when the girl realizes this, she leaves her bedroom, leaning her coat over her arm (this part of the scene cannot be seen in the image above). Both scenes are shown side by side in a simultaneous representation and separated by the architectural frame. To the left of the bed stands a youth whose meaning is not clear. This may be a later addition.
literature
- Brigitte Lymant: The stained glass of the Schnütgen Museum . Schnütgen Museum, Cologne 1983, pp. 192–193.
- Dagmar Täube : Rhenish glass painting. Renaissance masterpieces. Vol. II catalog, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1944-8 , pp. 30–32.