MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA064.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Giovanni di Paolo (c 1399-1482)
Date	15C/2
Reference No	MS Yates Thompson 36, f 188r (detail)
Size	c 9x16.8
Provenance	Alfonso V of Aragon, king of Naples
Present Location	London, British Library
Bibliography	Pope-Hennessy 1993, 59
	Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, 269; Roddewig 1984, 169-70
Illustration From	Pope-Hennessy 1993, 183
Other illustrations	Pope-Hennessy 1947, ill 80
	Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, pl 516b
Country	Italy

Description:
The third of the four Paradiso illuminations, the second illustrating Canto XXXII, by Giovanni di Paolo from the 1440's again shows the rose, but this time with fewer petals on a larger scale and with larger figures filling the petals in a more natural way. The stamen is occupied not by the Virgin and Child, but by the Annunciation. Clockwise the other three figures are Anne, Moses with the tablets of the Law. Dante asks Bernard the name of the angel and Bernard replies that it is Gabriel, the angel of the Annunciation. Dante is plucking at Bernard's sleeve, and Bernard has his gaze turned away from the Virgin and on Dante. Beatrice has her right hand on the kneeling Dante and her right hand on Bernard's halo. The position of Dante and Beatrice is again identical to that of the other two preceding pictures. (See also MA62, 63 & 65). Bernard has a 'tuft'.

Description:

The third of the four Paradiso illuminations, the second illustrating Canto XXXII, by Giovanni di Paolo from the 1440's again shows the rose, but this time with fewer petals on a larger scale and with larger figures filling the petals in a more natural way. The stamen is occupied not by the Virgin and Child, but by the Annunciation. Clockwise the other three figures are Anne, Moses with the tablets of the Law. Dante asks Bernard the name of the angel and Bernard replies that it is Gabriel, the angel of the Annunciation. Dante is plucking at Bernard's sleeve, and Bernard has his gaze turned away from the Virgin and on Dante. Beatrice has her right hand on the kneeling Dante and her right hand on Bernard's halo. The position of Dante and Beatrice is again identical to that of the other two preceding pictures. (See also MA62, 63 & 65). Bernard has a 'tuft'.