The invention relates to a method and a device for bending and cooling a glass sheet (2) or a group of glass sheets. According to the invention, the glass sheets (2) are heated to bending temperature and, in the horizontal position, bent into the desired shape with the aid of a mould ring (50, 51). The bent sheets (2) placed on said mould ring (50, 51) are then cooled in a cooling station (7) using cool blown air from blow boxes and subsequently conveyed to a removal station (9). The invention is characterised in that as the mould ring (50, 51) travels between the bending station (4), the cooling station (7), the removal station (9) and back to the bending station (4), it moves along a completely-closed path, in particular a circular path (K).