MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - DR10.jpg


Category	Drawing
Origin: artist/workshop	Lower Rhineland
Date	14C/2
Reference No	Inv Nr M 340
Size	25.5x18
Provenance
Present Location	Cologne, Schnuetgen Museum
Bibliography	Hamburger 1997, 1-3; Cologne 1968, 66; Hamburger 1989, 176; Buettner 1983, 150 & 215
	France 1998, 163 & 246; Aachen 1981, 571; Dupeux 1993, 153
Illustration From	Hamburger 1997, plate 1
Other illustrations	France 1998, colour plate 18
	Aachen 1980, 571; Buettner 1983, ill 162; Jaritz 2000, ill 4
Country	Germany

Description:
A small devotional image - a pen and ink single-leaf drawing - from the Lower Rhineland dated the the first half of the fourteenth century. In a Crucifixion scene Christ's cross-nimbed head droops from his lifeless body smothered in bright red blood which also streams out from all over. The kneeling figures of Bernard and a nun have both arms round the lower part of the cross. The crown of thorns is green as is Bernard's halo. The highly expressive figures, boldly drawn, contrast with the crude crozier which Bernard is too pre-occupied to be carrying, but which is there to help in the identification.

Description:

A small devotional image - a pen and ink single-leaf drawing - from the Lower Rhineland dated the the first half of the fourteenth century. In a Crucifixion scene Christ's cross-nimbed head droops from his lifeless body smothered in bright red blood which also streams out from all over. The kneeling figures of Bernard and a nun have both arms round the lower part of the cross. The crown of thorns is green as is Bernard's halo. The highly expressive figures, boldly drawn, contrast with the crude crozier which Bernard is too pre-occupied to be carrying, but which is there to help in the identification.