Switzerland, Lucerne, Convent of Rathausen, cloister
1591-1623
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, sanguine, and enamel
See Special Handling
See Special Handling
Provenance: Stanley Mortimer, New York
Bibliography: Johann Rudolf Rahn, “Die Glasgemälde im Kreuzgange des Klosters Rathausen,” in Der Geschichtsfreund, Mitteilungen des historischen Vereins der funf Orte 37 (Einsiedeln, 1882), 193-267, nos. 20, 22, 34, 41-42, 45-46, 48-49, 51, 57, and 58; Hans Lehmann, Geschichte der luzerner Glasmälerei van den Anfangen bis zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts, Luzern Geschichte und Kulture 31 no. 5 (Lucerne, 1941)1 145- 15 l; Xavier von Moos, “Das ehemalige Kloster Rathausen,11 Die Kunstdenk maler des Kantons Luzern l, in Die Kunstdenkmaler der Schweiz (Basel, 1946), 287-295; Jenny Schneider, “Zeugmisse schweizerischer Glasmälerei in amerikanischen Muséen,” Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archaologie und Kunstgeschichte 19 (1959), 96; MMAB (1971-1972), 152; Jane Hayward, “Glazed Cloisters and Their Development in the Houses of the Cistercian Order,” Gesta 12 (1973), 106-109, figs. 24-25; Deborah Kraak, “The Transfiguration from the Cistercian Cloister of Rathausen” (M.A. thesis, New York University, 1981), l-25, ill.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
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