MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - DR19.jpg

Category Drawing
Origin: artist/workshop School of Antwerp
Date 16C/1
Reference No Sl 5226.61
Size
Provenance
Present Location London, British Museum
Bibliography

Illustration From Iconclass Index HH (Bernard) 34 21
Other illustrations

Country Belgium
Description:
Early sixteenth-century pen and ink drawing. The crowned Virgin and Child sit under an elaborate baldachin within a church. The Virgin squeezes her bared breast with her left hand.A bearded and nimbed Bernard kneels on the right, his hands outstretched and with a crozier leaning against his right shoulder.