Christ on the Cross (Victoria and Albert Museum)
The depiction of Christ on the cross is part of a three-lane leaded glass window that was created in 1539/40 by the glass painter Gerhard Remsich for the cloister of the Steinfeld monastery . It has been in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London since 1928 .
origin
An inscription on the lower edge of the window, which has only survived in manuscript, names the abbot Simon Diepenbach and the year 1539 as the founder. The entire window was probably not completed until 1540, because his successor Jakob Panhausen is also dated 1540 called. After the window in the cloister of the Steinfeld monastery in the Eifel region was 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 . In 1928, the disk (108 cm high and 52.9 to 56.5 cm wide) was acquired with many others at an auction by Ernest E. Cook and the Victoria and Albert Museum (inventory no. C.251 -1928) in London.
description
In the middle of this former cloister window was the crucifixion scene, to the right of it the Evil Thief and to the left of it the Good Thief . The blood of Christ on the cross is caught in goblets by three angels , which refers to the Eucharist . At the foot of the cross the Mother of God Mary kneels (in the nimbus stands Mater Christi ), who is held by John the Evangelist . Behind it stands Maria Salome , who is also named on her nimbus. In the right foreground, Mary Magdalene is hugging the cross and looking up at Christ in dismay. To the right of her stands the blind Longinus with the lance, who inflicted the wound on the side of Christ and who, according to legend, regained his sight after blood from the wound of Christ dripped into his eyes. Behind the cross stands the good centurion with his soldiers, who at the moment of death recognizes Christ as God's Son.
literature
- Dagmar Täube : Rhenish glass painting. Renaissance masterpieces. Vol. II catalog, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1944-8 , pp. 384–387.