MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN05.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop Anonymous; printed by Johannes Emericus de Spira
Date 15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance Venice
Present Location
Bibliography Hain 1826-38, 2848; Dijon 1953, 64

Essling 1907-14, 2:241-2
Illustration From photo - Padova University Library
Other illustrations Essling 1907-14, 2:242

Country Italy
Description:
Frontispiece in Bernard's 'Sermones de tempore et de sanctis una cum homiliis et epistolis' printed in Venice by Johannes Emericus de Spira in 1495. Bernard is sitting in what looks like the Chapter House surrounded by his monks whom be is addressing. Above is a Crucifix and the word SILENTIUM.