MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA195.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Florentine?
Date	14C/3
Reference No	MS Thott 411 fol, f 243r (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 the second half of the fourteenth century of dante's Divine Comedy with a commentary by Jacopo della Lana illustrating Canto 33 of Paradiso. A nimbed and bearded Bernard kneels together with Dante and a group of seven other saints, all with hands clasped in prayer and looking up at God and the Virgin. One of four miniatures featuring Bernard. See also MA192-4.

Description:

Unfinished and rather crude miniature in an Italian (Florentine?) manuscript dated the second half of the fourteenth century of dante's Divine Comedy with a commentary by Jacopo della Lana illustrating Canto 33 of Paradiso. A nimbed and bearded Bernard kneels together with Dante and a group of seven other saints, all with hands clasped in prayer and looking up at God and the Virgin. One of four miniatures featuring Bernard. See also MA192-4.