Entombment (Victoria and Albert Museum)
The depiction of the Entombment of Christ is part of a three-lane leaded glass window that was created in 1539/40 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 (98.5 cm high and 56.4 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.259-1928) donated in London.
description
On the left side of this former Gothic cloister window was the Entombment of Christ, in the middle was the Lamentation of Christ and on the right of it was depicted the Descent from the Cross . At the entombment, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus are shown laying the body of Christ in a sarcophagus . Behind it stands Mary , who is supported by John the Evangelist . Behind the sarcophagus, Mary Magdalene kneels with her hands raised. Two other grieving women, also with a nimbus , stand behind it. The upper part of the disk shows a mountainous landscape with a view of the city, which is dominated by a church building. The people form a diagonal axis from the front left to the top right.
Idol
A woodcut of the Little Passion by Albrecht Dürer from around 1509 to 1511 may serve as a model for the depiction of the Entombment of Christ .
literature
- Dagmar Täube : Rhenish glass painting. Masterpieces of the Renaissance , Vol. II catalog, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-1944-8 , pp. 389–392.