MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN60.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop Anon; printer Anton Koberger
Date 15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance Nuremberg
Present Location
Bibliography Hain 1826-38, 9981; Illustrated Bartsch 86:153-240

Goff 1964, no J-168; Williams-Krapp 1986, 236
Illustration From Illustrated Bartsch 86:185
Other illustrations Schramm 1920-43, 17:no 148

Country Germany
Description:
Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger 5/12/1488. Two scenes: on the right a nimbed Bernard carrying a stick accompanied by a number of monks before a church; on the left a nimbed Bernard kneeling before the Virgin and Child in a mandorla on a crescent in the sky. In a German version of the Golden Legend.