Saint Bruno, founder of the Carthusian Order, with other saints
Unknown Artist
16th century
Medium
Stained glass
Dimensions
Overall: 27 1/2 × 18 1/2 in. (69.9 × 47 cm)
Classification
Glass-Stained
Culture
possibly Flemish, Leuven
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917
Accession Number
17.120.11
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite 16th-century stained panel, titled *Saint Bruno, Founder of the Carthusian Order with Other Saints*, hails from possibly Flemish workshops in Leuven, Belgium—a hub for masterful glasswork during the Renaissance. Measuring 27½ × 18½ inches, it depicts Saint Bruno, the 11th-century of the austere Carian monastic order, alongside fellow saints, including men and women identifiable by their crozierssymbols of pastoral authority). Now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department, it the collection through the 1917 bequest of Mr. and Mrs...