MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN33.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/3
Reference No	Inv 289-1912
Size	15.8x11.3
Provenance
Present Location	Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Bibliography	Schreiber 1927, 3:39 (1276a); Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339 Posset 2003,294

Illustration From	Weigel & Zimmermann 1862, 1:82
Other illustrations	Stadlober 1986, ill 2 Posset 2003,295
	Illustrated Bartsch 164:349
Country	Germany

Description:
A nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl and carrying a crozier kneels before the Crucifix form which the lifeless looking body of Christ with arms detached from the Cross, with red blood dripping from all wounds and with eyes shut, bends down from the Cross from which His arms have been detached and places these on Bernard's shoulders. Bernard's arms are outstretched to receive the body in what is almost more of a deposition image than an Amplexus. In the upper corners are two angels, one of them swinging a thurible, and lower down on the right a third angel holds a mitre. The arms of Clairvaux lies on the green ground. The woodcut is dated c 1450. It may have come from the Cistercian abbey of Kaisersheim.

Description:

A nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl and carrying a crozier kneels before the Crucifix form which the lifeless looking body of Christ with arms detached from the Cross, with red blood dripping from all wounds and with eyes shut, bends down from the Cross from which His arms have been detached and places these on Bernard's shoulders. Bernard's arms are outstretched to receive the body in what is almost more of a deposition image than an Amplexus. In the upper corners are two angels, one of them swinging a thurible, and lower down on the right a third angel holds a mitre. The arms of Clairvaux lies on the green ground. The woodcut is dated c 1450. It may have come from the Cistercian abbey of Kaisersheim.