MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA014.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Benedetto di Silvestro, style of
Date	15C/3
Reference No	L95/14/27 (detail)
Size	16.5x11.2
Provenance	Florence? Cistercian?
Present Location	unknown - Sotheby sale 17/6/1997, lot 39
Bibliography	Sotheby Catalogue 17/6/1997

Illustration From	photo - Courtauld Institute
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
A single leaf from a Gradual. 1450-75. The bearded Bernard standing holding a red book and a crozier set in a landscape with towering cliffs on the right and distant blue cities on the horizon, sky flecked with blue with white fluffy clouds. The initial I(n medio ecclesie) is from the introit of the Mass of Bernard. In the style of Ser Benedetto di Silvestro of Fiesole, recorded as illuminator in Florence 1445-73. To judge from the subject, the miniature was probably from a Cistercian choirbook.

Description:

A single leaf from a Gradual. 1450-75. The bearded Bernard standing holding a red book and a crozier set in a landscape with towering cliffs on the right and distant blue cities on the horizon, sky flecked with blue with white fluffy clouds. The initial I(n medio ecclesie) is from the introit of the Mass of Bernard. In the style of Ser Benedetto di Silvestro of Fiesole, recorded as illuminator in Florence 1445-73. To judge from the subject, the miniature was probably from a Cistercian choirbook.