MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA194.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Florentine?
Date	14C/3
Reference No	MS Thott 411 fol, f 241r (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Copenhagen, Royal Library
Bibliography	Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, 219-24
	Stockholm 1952, 52-3; Copenhagen 1999, 85; Roddewig 1984, 156
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
Unfinished and rather crude miniature in an Italian (Florentine?) manuscript dated second half of the fourteenth century of Dante's Divine Comedy with a commentary by Jacopo della Lana illustrating Canto 32 of Paradiso. A nimbed Bernard with long beard turns to Dante behind him pointing to Christ and Mary seated and surrounded by fourteen kneeling saints. One of four miniatures featuring Bernard. See also MA192-3 and MA195.

Description:

Unfinished and rather crude miniature in an Italian (Florentine?) manuscript dated second half of the fourteenth century of Dante's Divine Comedy with a commentary by Jacopo della Lana illustrating Canto 32 of Paradiso. A nimbed Bernard with long beard turns to Dante behind him pointing to Christ and Mary seated and surrounded by fourteen kneeling saints. One of four miniatures featuring Bernard. See also MA192-3 and MA195.