MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA075.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Emilian or Paduan
Date	14C/2
Reference No	MS Egerton 943, f 184v (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	London, British Library
Bibliography	Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, 262-9
	Roddewig 1984, 163-4
Illustration From	Dante 1965, 503
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
One of five miniatures featuring Bernard in an Emilian or Paduan manuscript of the Divine Comedy from the second quarter of the fourteenth century. This is one of two illustrations of Canto 32.The half-figures of Dante on the left and Bernard on the right in the Empyrean, both with their hands folded, pray to the crowned Virgin in a glory between busts of saints and Beatrice. (See also MA072-4 and MA076).

Description:

One of five miniatures featuring Bernard in an Emilian or Paduan manuscript of the Divine Comedy from the second quarter of the fourteenth century. This is one of two illustrations of Canto 32.The half-figures of Dante on the left and Bernard on the right in the Empyrean, both with their hands folded, pray to the crowned Virgin in a glory between busts of saints and Beatrice. (See also MA072-4 and MA076).