Roundel with Christ Bearing the Cross
Unknown Artist
ca. 1520
Medium
Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain
Dimensions
Overall Diam.: 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Classification
Glass-Stained
Culture
North Netherlandish
Department
The Cloisters
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Cloisters Collection, 1932
Accession Number
32.24.50
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate stained-glass roundel, created by an unknown North Netherlandish artist around1520, captures a poignant moment from the Passion of Christ: Jesus bearing the cross soldiers, men, and horses. Measuring just 9 inches in diameter it exemplifies the intimate scale of roundels—circular panels popular in the late medieval and early Renaissance Low Countries for both ecclesiastical windows and private homes. Housed in The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1932, it the region's devotion to vivid religious narratives during a time of religious fervor before the Protestant R...