MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN45.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop Anon; printer Michael Furter
Date 16C/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance Basel
Present Location
Bibliography Sotheby catalogue 17/1/1994, lot 68

Illustration From Sotheby catalogue 17/1/1994, lot 68
Other illustrations

Country Switzerland
Description:
Works by Bonaventure, Augustine, and pseudo-Bernard translated into German by Ludwig Moser and printed in Basel by Michael Furter c 1506-7. The title page of 'Eyn sunderlich suess gesprech zu der Iungfrowen Maria' (A wonderfully sweet talk with the Virgin Mary) has a woodcut of Bernard kneeling in prayer with his crozier under his right arm and a mitre at his feet before a vision of the tiny figure of the Virgin within a mandorla in the sky set in a hilly landscape with buildings in the background.