Stoning of St. Stephen (Museum Schnütgen)
Stoning of St. Stephen is called a scene from a church window that was part of a cycle about the life of St. Stephen . The window by an unknown artist dates from around 1250/60 and is now in the Schnütgen Museum .
origin
The 65 cm high and 57.10 cm wide part of a lead glass window , trimmed below and on the sides, comes from the Church of Our Lady in Trier and was probably located in the transept . At the beginning of the 19th century it came to the Cologne art trade with other windows from Trier .
description
Just like a correspondingly designed pane of glass depicting the sermon of St. Stephen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , the stoning of St. Stephen from a window with scenes from the life of this early martyr . The panes are likely influenced by France, where depictions of the life of St. Stephen occur frequently in a cycle.
The martyrdom of St. Stephen shown. Two men throw stones at the kneeling saint on the left. In the foreground on the right, Saul , who is called Paul after his conversion, observes the event. The scene, shown in a quatrefoil , is framed by a carpet-like floral pattern.
literature
- Brigitte Lymant: The stained glass of the Schnütgen Museum . Schnütgen Museum Cologne, Cologne 1983.
- Hiltrud Westermann-Angerhausen (Ed.): Himmelslicht - European glass painting in the century of Cologne cathedral building (1248-1349) . Schnütgen Museum Cologne, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-932800-02-8 , p. 174-175 .