St John on Patmos
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Remisch, Gerhard (artist)
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Clear and coloured glass with painted details and silver stain
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The figure shown in this panel is St John, one of the original 12 Apostles of Christ. He was considered to be the author of the Fourth Gospel of the New Testament and the Apocalypse (The Book of Revelation).
St John was exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the teachings of Christ. Patmos lies off the coast of Asia Minor. This panel shows him in exile, receiving a revelation from God and writing the Apocalypse.
The woman he sees in the vision is from the first part of St John's Apocalypse. He describes her as having a crown of twelve stars and the sun and the moon under her feet. Her first born is destined to rule all nations. This woman became equated with the Virgin Mary early on in the Christian Church.
Gerhard Remisch was a glass painter and head of a prolific workshop in the Rhineland in the first half of the 16th century.
Physical description
[Panel] Stained glass panel depicting St. John on Patmos seeing a vision of the Virgin in the sky. Below an inscription: 'JOHANNES KAUWIKE PASTOR IN WEER. JOHANNES BAUER PR[IO]R ZO ELLEN ANNO 15[38]'. (The inscription in brackets wrongly restored to read [KLI] AND [06]). Red, blue and white glas. Grisaille. Yellow stain. Brown enamel.
Place of Origin
Germany (made)
Date
1538/9 (made)
Artist/maker
Remisch, Gerhard (artist)
Materials and Techniques
Clear and coloured glass with painted details and silver stain
Marks and inscriptions
[Panel] 'JOHANNES KAUWIKE PASTOR IN WEER. JOHANNES BAUER PR[IO]R ZO ELLEN ANNO 15[38]'
Dimensions
[Panel] Height: 63.1 cm wood frame, Width: 64.0 cm wood frame, Weight: 4.5 kg in wooden frame, Depth: 2.0 cm wood frame, Height: 51.8 cm sight, Width: 52.7 cm sight
Object history note
From Steinfeld
Descriptive line
Panel with clear and coloured glass with silver stain. Depicting St John writing the Book of Revelations and receiving a vision of the Woman of the Apocalypse. Formerly in the Cloister at Steinfeld in the Rhineland. Made in the workshop of Gerhard Remisch. German, 1538/9
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Christiane Andersson and Charles Talbot, From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings and Books in the Age of Luther, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983
p.338 (cat.191)
Based on an engraving of the same subject by Martin Schongauer (c.1480). Now in the Kunstsammlungen der Veste in Coburg (Inv.no. I 2, 49)
Production Note
After an engraving by Martin Schongauer
Materials
Glass; Stained glass
Techniques
Painting; Staining
Subjects depicted
Mary (Virgin Mary); Bird; Tree; Christianity; Halo; St. John the Evangelist; Patmos; Woman of the Apocalypse
Categories
Christianity; Stained Glass
Collection code
CER
