The death of the Virgin and the Coronation of Mary (Museum Schnütgen)
The death of the Virgin and the Coronation of Mary are two church windows of unknown origin from around 1250/60. You are now in the Schnütgen Museum .
description
The two round-arched, vertical format panes are 68 cm high and 45 cm wide. They are made of colored smelted glass and have contours and folds in black solder and half-tone modeling on the back. In 1880, Alexander Schnütgen acquired the two discs. Both have additions or the black solder drawing was renewed during restorations.
presentation
The two discs show representations from the life of Mary , the death and the coronation of Mary . At the edge of the panes there is an ornament band with a pearl border.
Death of Mary
Maria lies in the middle on a post bed and is dressed in an orange-green robe. Maria's upper body is erect and her eyes are closed, like a sleeping woman. Behind the bed, Christ stands in his arms with the personified soul of his mother. To the left and right of him stand three apostles . The clouds above indicate that, according to a legend, the 12 apostles were brought to Mary's deathbed on clouds. The donor couple, named above as Philip and Agnes, stand praying under the bed.
Coronation of Mary
The overall structure is also divided into three parts here. Sitting on a bench, Christ is shown putting the crown on with his mother's right hand. Mary reverently raises both hands and an angel above the back of the bench watches over the scene. In the lower zone, the founders, named Theoderus and Gertrudis, are separated by a double arcade .
literature
- Brigitte Lymant: The stained glass of the Schnütgen Museum . Schnütgen Museum, Cologne 1983.
- Himmelslicht - European stained glass in the century of the Cologne cathedral building (1248–1349) . Edited by Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen , Schnütgen-Museum Köln, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-932800-02-8 , pp. 136-137.