MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA213.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Ghent, style influenced by Simon Bening
Date	16C/1
Reference No	MS W 436, f 90v (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery
Bibliography	Randall 1989-97, 3:509-21
	Randall 1987, 134; De Ricci 1935, 809
Illustration From	photo - Walters Art Gallery
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
Prayerbook from Ghent dated c 1500 has historiated initial O in gold on a rosa ground with a three-quarter figure of Bernard in a frontal position with a blue book in his right hand and a gold crozier in his left looking down at a green devil breathing fire lying on the ground behind Bernard and with its claw on Bernard's right arm. Prayer to Bernard 'Charitate vulneratus castitatus'. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

Prayerbook from Ghent dated c 1500 has historiated initial O in gold on a rosa ground with a three-quarter figure of Bernard in a frontal position with a blue book in his right hand and a gold crozier in his left looking down at a green devil breathing fire lying on the ground behind Bernard and with its claw on Bernard's right arm. Prayer to Bernard 'Charitate vulneratus castitatus'. Bernard has 'tuft'.