Coat of Arms of the Town of Brugg

between 1565 and 1589

Jakob Brunner Swiss

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

In this circular stained-glass panel (known as a roundel), two imposing armored bears flank the civic coat of arms of Brugg, Switzerland, dominated by a bridge and tower. Each bear carries a halberd, a staff weapon often associated with guards who protected important people or sites like gates and bridges.
Brugg (which means “bridge” in the Swiss-German dialect) was named for its defining feature, which had offered important passage over the Aare River and through the Swiss Alps since Roman times. The tower of the medieval stone bridge, enlarged in 1532, still rises over Brugg’s skyline. For this roundel, Jakob Brunner used a variety of sophisticated techniques — including black enamel selectively scraped away to reveal the architectural details of the bridge and a golden stain made from silver nitrate — to portray this iconic symbol of his hometown in glowing translucent color.

Title Coat of Arms of the Town of Brugg

Artwork Date between 1565 and 1589

Artist Jakob Brunner

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Swiss

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel

Dimensions Overall: 12 1/2 inches (31.8 cm)

Classification Stained Glass

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of George G. Booth

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 23.4

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Lord Sudeley (Toddington Castle, Gloucestershire, England);
October 4, 1911, (Galerie Helbing, Munich, Germany) lot 75;
until 1922, (Theodore Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland);
until 1923, George G. Booth (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1923-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lehmann, H. Die ehemalige Sammlung schweizerischer Glasmalereien in Toddington Castle, England. Munich, 1911, p. 61, no. 75.

Burroughs, Clyde. "Stained Glass Presented by Mr. George G. Booth." Bulletin of the DIA 4, no. 7 (April 1923): p. 59.

Schneider, J. "Zeugnisse schweizerischer Glasmalerei in amerikanischen Museen."

Zeitschrift für Archäologie un Kunstgeschichte 19 (1959): p. 97.

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, 1989, p. 166 (ill.).

Raguin, V. and H. Zakin. Stained Glass Before 1700 in the collections of the Midwest States (Corpus Vitrearum United States of America 7), vol I, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. London, 2001, pp. 266-268, no. DIA 48 (ill.).

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attributed to Jakob Brunner, Coat of Arms of the Town of Brugg, between 1565 and 1589, stained glass: pot metal; white glass with silver stain and enamel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 23.4.