Eva (Museum Schnütgen)
The depiction of Eve is a fragment of a leaded glass window created by an unknown artist between 1455 and 1460. The disc came to the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne in 1932 and has the inventory no. M 532.
origin
The disk, 23 cm high and 19 cm wide, comes from a workshop in Cologne. In the Schnütgen Museum there is a fragment of the head of a grieving Mother of God and an Ursula or Jacobus Magdalena disk from the same workshop. This can be seen because all these discs show the same head type: round, bloated faces with high, arched foreheads and heavy, round eyelids.
The white, thin glass was painted with brown solder and silver yellow (hair, apple and leaves). The ankle lead on the wrist is from a later repair.
description
Eve's naked torso has been preserved from a fragment of a figure . With her head bowed slightly to the left, Eva looks to the right and is clearly holding an apple in her outstretched right hand. The left arm, which was probably guided downwards, originally covered the lap. Her hair flows in waves down her shoulders and back. Two sheets of paper cover her breasts.
Scenes from the Old Testament are rare in late medieval stained glass. This fragment probably comes from a Genesis window , which also depicts the fall of man . The bitten apple indicates: "... and she took some of the fruit and ate and gave her husband, who was with her, some of it and he ate" ( Luther Bible ).
literature
- Brigitte Lymant: The stained glass of the Schnütgen Museum . Schnütgen Museum, Cologne 1983.