Bishop Saint (Benedict?), between 1510 and 1525

  • German

Stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain

  • Overall: 27 1/2 × 27 3/4 × 3/4 inches (69.9 × 70.5 × 1.9 cm)

Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer

48.133

Inscribed, on nimbus: BEN

before 1938, Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938] (Roslyn, New York, USA)

(Dr. Armand Hammer, Hammer Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Stained Glass before 1700 in American Collections: Mid-Western and Western States (Corpus Vitrearum Checklist III). Studies in the History of Art, vol. 28. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989, p. 162 (ill.). Raguin, Virginia C. and Helen J. Zakin. Corpus Vitrearum United States of America Part VII: Stained Glass before 1700 in the Collections of the Midwest States, vol. I. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2001, pp. 211-212.

German, Bishop Saint (Benedict?), between 1510 and 1525, stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer, 48.133.