MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN39.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop	Anon; printed by Leonardus Pachel
Date	15C/4
Reference No
Size	14.9x12
Provenance	Milan
Present Location
Bibliography	H P Kraus Cat No 121 (no date), 17; Dijon 1953, 65
	Hain 1826-38, no 2873 & 4167; Hind 1963, 2:519
Illustration From	Sander 1942, 5: no 17
Other illustrations	H P Krauss Cat No 121 (no date), 16
	Posset 1997, ill 1
Country	Italy

Description:
Title page of Bernard's Sermons ('Sermones de tempore et de sanctis cum homeliis beati Bernardi') printed in Milan by Leonardus Pachel 5 October 1495. Bernard sits alone in his study holding his crozier in his left hand and picking up a book with his right. Many other books are on two desks on either side of him, both on the top and on shelves below. A small image of the Virgin and Child hangs on the wall to the left. On the right is a niche in the wall in which a candlestick is placed. Bernard has a 'tuft'. Appears again in an edition of 1497.

Description:

Title page of Bernard's Sermons ('Sermones de tempore et de sanctis cum homeliis beati Bernardi') printed in Milan by Leonardus Pachel 5 October 1495. Bernard sits alone in his study holding his crozier in his left hand and picking up a book with his right. Many other books are on two desks on either side of him, both on the top and on shelves below. A small image of the Virgin and Child hangs on the wall to the left. On the right is a niche in the wall in which a candlestick is placed. Bernard has a 'tuft'. Appears again in an edition of 1497.