MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN69.jpg


Category	Woodcut
Origin: artist/workshop	Anon; printer Gotfred (or Govaert) van Gehmen
Date	15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Copenhagen
Present Location	Copenhagen, Royal Library
Bibliography	Nielsen 1919, 36-7 & 172-3; Helms 1940, 312
	Hellinga 1968, 7-38
Illustration From	Gyldendal og Politikens Danmarkshistorie 1989, 1:113
Other illustrations	Helms 1940, 315

Country	Denmark

Description:
Woodcut used as a frontispiece to 'Fundamentum in Grammatica' printed 28/6/1493 in Copenhagen by the Dutchman Gotfred van Ghemen who was active in Gouida before coming to Copenhagen 1493-5 and again 1505-10, having been in Leiden between the two periods. An example of a Lactation scene used to illustrate a book with text totally different from the subject of the image. A standing and crowned Virgin with Child bares her breast and sends a jet of milk in the direction of a nimbed Bernard kneeling before her with hands clasped in prayer and with his crozier leaning against his left shoulder. The scene is a garden with a low brick wall behind.

Description:

Woodcut used as a frontispiece to 'Fundamentum in Grammatica' printed 28/6/1493 in Copenhagen by the Dutchman Gotfred van Ghemen who was active in Gouida before coming to Copenhagen 1493-5 and again 1505-10, having been in Leiden between the two periods. An example of a Lactation scene used to illustrate a book with text totally different from the subject of the image. A standing and crowned Virgin with Child bares her breast and sends a jet of milk in the direction of a nimbed Bernard kneeling before her with hands clasped in prayer and with his crozier leaning against his left shoulder. The scene is a garden with a low brick wall behind.