MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN55.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop Anon; printer Johann Sensenschmidt
Date 15C/3
Reference No
Size
Provenance Nuremberg
Present Location
Bibliography Hain 1826-38, 9969; Illustrated Bartsch 80:367-84

Williams-Krapp 1986, 235
Illustration From Illustrated Bartsch 80:380
Other illustrations Schramm 1920-43, 18:no 90

Country Germany
Description:
Printed in Nuremberg by Johann Sensenschmidt 28/7/1475, and also used in the edition by Steffen Arndes published in 1485. A nimbed Bernard kneels before a half-figure of the Virgin and Child on a crescent in the sky in a landscape with a tree. One of 127 illustrations in a German version of the Golden Legend. See also EN59 which is almost identical.