MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA205.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop Burgundian
Date 15C/4
Reference No MS W 256, f 166v (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery
Bibliography Randall 1989-97, 2:361-6

Randall 1987, 131; De Ricci 1935, 804
Illustration From photo - Walters Art Gallery
Other illustrations

Country France
Description:
One of the ten Suffrages to Saints in a Burgundian Book of Hours (Use of Autun) dated c 1480-90 has a crudely painted half-figure of Bernard in a mountainous landscape with hands folded in prayer and a crozier under his left arm. Bernard has 'tuft'.