The overriding quality of Lochner’s Madonna of the Rose Bower is an intense sweetness.
Stefan Lochner, Madonna of the Rose Bower, c. 1440–42, oil on oak panel, 50.5 x 40 cm (Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne). Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris
Additional resources
This painting at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Anne Winston-Allen, “Gardens of Heavenly and Earthly Delight: Medieval Gardens of the Imagination,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, volume 99, number 1 (1998), pp. 83–92.
Julien Chapuis, “Beyond the Christmas Card—Stefan Lochner, the Painter: ‘The Virgin in the Rose Bower,'” Stefan Lochner: Image Making in Fifteenth-Century Cologne (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 88–94.
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