Master of the Rose of Lausanne

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Master of the Rose of Lausanne: April and May, monthly representations , around 1235. Stained glass window in Lausanne, rose of the cathedral, southern cross arm
Lausanne, rose of the cathedral, south transept (transept) - interior shot
Lausanne, rose of the cathedral, south transept (transept) - exterior shot

With master of Rose of Lausanne of unnamed certainly known artists and craftspeople is called, with his workshop in 1235, the stained glass of the window glazing of the rosette in the southern cross arm of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Lausanne has created.

Style and origin

While the almost simultaneous stained glass in the Swiss region, the so-called "Flums Madonna" still shows the Romanesque style of painting, the work of the Master of the Rose of Lausanne is influenced by the Gothic style of the 13th century from France. This suggests that the master could have come from France itself. His representations are reminiscent of book paintings of the time.

Image program

The geometric structure of the rose window, created by the stonemasons of the cathedral in Lausanne, was influenced by the Chartres school . The subject and task of the Master of the Rose of Lausanne were then to depict the image and the position of man in the divine cosmos and plan with glass pictures. In this "world mirror" (Latin mirror mundi ) the master now depicts the people in the circle of natural elements and the seasons. He thus visually integrates the microcosm of people into the structure of the cathedral.

Identification as Peter von Arras

Since a glass painter Peter from Arras can be found in the books of the cathedral between 1226 and 1235, the name of the Master of the Rose of Lausanne is mentioned as Peter von Arras in art historical research .

literature

  • EJ Beer : The rose of the cathedral of Lausanne and the cosmological circle of images of the Middle Ages (Berner Schriften zur Kunst Vol. 6) Bern, Benteli Verlag 1952
  • EJ Beer: Swiss stained glass from the 12th to the beginning of the 14th century . Basel, Birkhäuser Verlag 1956
  • B. Kurmann-Schwarz: The rose in the south transept facade of Lausanne Cathedral, a Christian image of time and space . In: Wissensformen, 6th International Baroque Summer Course, Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, Einsiedeln, Zurich 2008, p. 50ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Schneider: Glass painting, catalog of the collection of the Swiss National Museum, Zurich 1970, 2 volumes
  2. ^ Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, Hortensia von Roda, Stefan Trümpler: Glasmalerei. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ cf. in particular EJ Beer: The rose of the cathedral of Lausanne and the cosmological circle of images of the Middle Ages .. , (Berner Schriften zur Kunst Vol. 6). Bern, Benteli Verlag 1952
  4. ↑ cf. R. Finckh: Minor Mundus Homo: Studies on the microcosm idea in medieval literature . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999, p. 88f.
  5. ↑ cf. B. Kurmann-Schwarz: The rose in the south transept facade of Lausanne Cathedral, a Christian image of time and space . In: Wissensformen, 6th International Baroque Summer Course, Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, Einsiedeln, Zurich 2008, p. 50ff.
  6. ↑ cf. M. Grandjean: La construction de la cathédrale de Lausanne (Fin XIIe - début XIIIe siècles): notes on the chronologie et les maîtres d'oeuvre . In Genava, 11, 1963, pp. 261-288 (French)
  7. ^ C. Pfaff, C. Jörg (Ed.): The inscriptions of the cantons of Friborg, Geneva, Jura, Neuchâtel and Vaud . Corpus inscriptionum medii aevi Helvetiae (special volume 2). Walter de Gruyter, 1984 - stained glass
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Rose of Lausanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter of Arras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artists, glass painters and artisans
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: before 1235
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 1235