MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN16.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop	Jerg Haspel ze Biberach (+ 1430-40)
Date	15C/2
Reference No	Inv 1930/133
Size	28.2x20.4
Provenance	Upper Rhine
Present Location	Vienna, Albertina, Graphische Sammlung
Bibliography	EM2:7 (Griesser 1961, 102-3); Glaser 1924, 53; Schreiber 1927, 3:38 (1271); Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339
	Dijon 1953, 63; Hind 1963, 1:128; Stadlober 1986, 367; Haberditzl 1920, 21; Posset 1998, 307 Posset 2003, 288
Illustration From	Glaser 1924, ill 7
Other illustrations	Hind 1963, 1:ill 55; The Illustrated Bartsch 164:343 Posset 2003,289
	Haberditzl 1920, ill 73
Country	Austria

Description:
Bernard kneels in a church before an altar on which two candles are burning and beside which is a T-Cross with the inscription INRI at the top from which Christ has detached both arms which reach down to embrace Bernard. On the left of the altar is a crozier, on the altar a mitre, and on the right of the altar on the ground the coat of arms of Bernard. The artist's name is given as 'terg haspel ze Bibrach', the earliest signed example of an Amplexus woodcut, and one of the earliest documents of localisation and identification among woodcuts. Haspel died 1430-40 and the image is from around this time. The colours are red, dark green, grey, and yellow. The composition of the figures is very similar to that of EN14 (see this).

Description:

Bernard kneels in a church before an altar on which two candles are burning and beside which is a T-Cross with the inscription INRI at the top from which Christ has detached both arms which reach down to embrace Bernard. On the left of the altar is a crozier, on the altar a mitre, and on the right of the altar on the ground the coat of arms of Bernard. The artist's name is given as 'terg haspel ze Bibrach', the earliest signed example of an Amplexus woodcut, and one of the earliest documents of localisation and identification among woodcuts. Haspel died 1430-40 and the image is from around this time. The colours are red, dark green, grey, and yellow. The composition of the figures is very similar to that of EN14 (see this).