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Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and The Kiss of Judas (pair)

1522–1526

Everhard Rensig

(German)

or Gerhard Remisch

(German)
Germany, Cologne, 16th century
pot-metal and white glass, silver stain and sanguine
Overall: 73.7 x 71.8 cm (29 x 28 1/4 in.)
Gift of S. Livingstone Mather, Constance Mather Bishop, Philip R. Mather, Katherine Hoyt Cross, and Katherine Mather McLean in accordance with the wishes of Samuel Mather 1940.340
Location: 111 German and Austrian Gothic

Description

These two stained glass panels originally belonged to an extensive program of Old and New Testament subjects that originally decorated the cloister of the Cistercian Abbey of Mariawald, near Cologne. The original placement of glass at Mariawald involved windows composed of two openings. Each comprised three large glass panels plus a smaller tracery panel. Two scenes in each window represented Old Testament subjects (below) and the New Testament (above). Above the biblical narrative panels were smaller messenger panels depicting images of prophets with scrolls. At the base of each window were donor and patron saint panels. In this way, the Old Testament was shown to prefigure the events of the New. These two panels depicting scenes of Christ’s Passion were originally located in the north corner of the east cloister gallery with the Kiss of Judas on the left, and Christ in Gethsemane on the right. Mariawald was founded in 1480 and closed in 1802 when the stained glass windows were removed. Recent scholarship has attributed the glass to the Rhenish glass painters Everhard Rensig or Gerhard Remisch.
  • Samuel Mather, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Milliken. William. "Objects from the Samuel Mather Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 3 (March 1941): 36-40. Mentioned: p. 39 www.jstor.org
    Zakin, Helen. "Stained Glass Panels from Mariawald Abbey in the Cleveland Museum of Art." In Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude: Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson. Terry Kinder, ed., 260-267. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols; [Nuits-Saint-Georges]: Cîteaux, 2004. Reproduced: Color plate between p. 260 and 261, p. 262, fig. 1 and 2; Mentioned: 260-267,
  • Science within Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).
    Exhibition of the Month: Stained Glass - Design and Process. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-April 29, 1946).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1940.340