MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN23.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop	Hans Baldung Grien (1484/5-1545); printer Martin Flach
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	6.1x4.7
Provenance	Strasbourg
Present Location
Bibliography	EM2:7 (Griesser 1961, 102-3);Posset 2003,360
	Karlsruhe 1959, 340
Illustration From	Karlsruhe 1959, 342
Other illustrations	Posset 2003,361

Country	France

Description:
One of a large number of woodcuts of saints in the 'Hortulus animae' printed in Strasbourg in 1512 by Martin Flach. It was also used in an edition by Thomas Wolff of Basel dated 2 November 1519. Whereas all the other saints are depicted with halos, the one of Bernard is not as the figure of Christ with his arms detached from the Cross in an Amplexus scene is nimbed. Bernard kneels with his hands outstretched to support Christ's body. The arms of Bernard surmounted by a mitre lies on the ground between the two figures. See also EN85.

Description:

One of a large number of woodcuts of saints in the 'Hortulus animae' printed in Strasbourg in 1512 by Martin Flach. It was also used in an edition by Thomas Wolff of Basel dated 2 November 1519. Whereas all the other saints are depicted with halos, the one of Bernard is not as the figure of Christ with his arms detached from the Cross in an Amplexus scene is nimbed. Bernard kneels with his hands outstretched to support Christ's body. The arms of Bernard surmounted by a mitre lies on the ground between the two figures. See also EN85.