MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN59.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop Anon; printer Stephanus Arndes
Date 15C/4
Reference No f 163v
Size
Provenance Luebeck
Present Location Copenhagen, Royal Library
Bibliography Hain 1826-38, 9990; Illustrated Bartsch 86:88-99

Goff 1964, no J-173; Williams-Krapp 1986, 236
Illustration From Illustrated Bartsch 85:96
Other illustrations Schramm 1920-43, 11:no 78

Country Germany
Description:
One of 259 woodcuts printed in Luebeck by Stephanus Arndes 23/6/1488 and repeated 23/4/1499. Bernard kneels in a landscape with a tree before a half-figure of the Virgin and Child on a crescent in the sky. In a German version of the Golden Legend. Almost identical to EN55.