Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard exhorts the sick in body to enter his church with their spirits, in doing so returning to find their infirmities healed (one of two)

Master of Saint Severin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

From a set of twenty-two windows, each with six scenes devoted to the Life of Saint Bernard, made for the glazed cloister at Altenberg, near Cologne. Saint Bernard with Clergy and Scholars. The abbot invited a multitude of people to enter his church in spirit, but leaving their bodies behind. Faith would miraculously heal their spirits and mend their infirm bodies. The clergy stand in front of the church; Saint Bernard is in the portal with an inscribed scroll above and to left of his head; behind him stands an attendant with pastoral staff. To the left are two patricians, followed by two monks in brown robes, and four others; at right, three nobles, first in blue, second in red and yellow, with six attendants. The background and the church are in white and beige. The whole scene is set within a foliate arch on columns.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art