MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA053.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15C/1
Reference No	Cod Pal Germ 144, f 76r
Size	21,5x20
Provenance	Alsace
Present Location	Heidelberg, Universitaetsbibliothek
Bibliography	EM2:7 (Griesser 1961, 102-3) Posset 2003,282
	Paffrath 1990, 89
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 89
Other illustrations	Posset 1998, ill 3 Posset 2003,283

Country	France

Description:
From a paper manuscript of the Lives of the Saints derived from James of Voragine's Golden Legend. Written in 1419 in an Alsatian dialect of German, this pen and ink drawing of the traditional Amplexus scene set out of doors is decorated using only three colours: green for Christ's loincloth, the grass on which the cross is placed and the two trees in the background, yellow for the cross, Christ's and Bernard's halos, and Bernard's crozier and tonsure, and a pale brown for Bernard's cowl.

Description:

From a paper manuscript of the Lives of the Saints derived from James of Voragine's Golden Legend. Written in 1419 in an Alsatian dialect of German, this pen and ink drawing of the traditional Amplexus scene set out of doors is decorated using only three colours: green for Christ's loincloth, the grass on which the cross is placed and the two trees in the background, yellow for the cross, Christ's and Bernard's halos, and Bernard's crozier and tonsure, and a pale brown for Bernard's cowl.