MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN14.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop	Upper Rhine
Date	15C/3
Reference No	Inv X.1874
Size	20x13.6
Provenance
Present Location	Basel, Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung
Bibliography	EM2:7 (Griesser, 102-3); Schreiber 1927, 3:39 (1273); Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339
	Dijon 1953, 63; Posset 1998, 307-8; Anderes & Hoegger 1989, 260-1 Posset 2003,302
Illustration From	Heitz 1899-1924, 11:ill 14
Other illustrations	Illustrated Bartsch 164:346; Leclercq 1966, 129
	Anderes & Hoegger 1989, 260; Leclercq 1976, facing Chronology; Hoegger 2002, 233, Posset 2003, 303
Country	Switzerland

Description:
Single print. A woodcut from the Upper Rhine dated 1460-75 and attached to a Psalter from 1477. An Amplexus scene in a room with a green floor, an open window on the left through which there is a view of a landscape with a tree, and a closed window on the right. A kneeling Bernard in a grey cowl and with a yellow halo has both arms outstrethed to receive the smaller figure of Christ with his hands detached from the T-Cross ( inscribed INRI at the top) and reaching down to Bernard. Christ has long black hair and beard, a chestnut coloured cross-nimbus and streams of blood pouring down his body. Bernard's coat of arms are at the foot of the Cross.

Description:

Single print. A woodcut from the Upper Rhine dated 1460-75 and attached to a Psalter from 1477. An Amplexus scene in a room with a green floor, an open window on the left through which there is a view of a landscape with a tree, and a closed window on the right. A kneeling Bernard in a grey cowl and with a yellow halo has both arms outstrethed to receive the smaller figure of Christ with his hands detached from the T-Cross ( inscribed INRI at the top) and reaching down to Bernard. Christ has long black hair and beard, a chestnut coloured cross-nimbus and streams of blood pouring down his body. Bernard's coat of arms are at the foot of the Cross.