MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA248.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Nicolas of Bologna and disciples
Date	14C/2
Reference No	MS Vat. lat. 8541, f 88v (detail)
Size	8.4x6.5 (each image excl. border - four images on folio 21.5x16.7)
Provenance	Court of Hungary
Present Location	Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica
Bibliography	VP1:6:30 (PL 185:244-5); LA 214; Karl 1929, 185-205
	Dal Pra 1990, 351-4; Schmitt 1990, 156
Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations	Karl 1929, ill 2

Country	Italy

Description:
One of eight images of Bernard from a Legendary illustrated by Nicolas of Bologna dated 1330-40 and featuring the lives of 51 saints. Four are on this folio and four on the facing folio, each image surrounded by foliate decoration. Bottom left shows the visit of Bernard's sister to Clairvaux. Because of her vanity Bernard at first refused to see her. In a sumptuous dress and with a crown on her head she approaches the door of the monastery with her companions. Bernard flees and the porter, his brother, throws a disdainful look at her. The artist has changed the story: Bernard did not flee from her, but merely refused to see her. The inscription reads: 'III. Quomodo fugebat ipse ante sororem suam' (How he fled before his sister). See also MA246-7 & 249-53.

Description:

One of eight images of Bernard from a Legendary illustrated by Nicolas of Bologna dated 1330-40 and featuring the lives of 51 saints. Four are on this folio and four on the facing folio, each image surrounded by foliate decoration. Bottom left shows the visit of Bernard's sister to Clairvaux. Because of her vanity Bernard at first refused to see her. In a sumptuous dress and with a crown on her head she approaches the door of the monastery with her companions. Bernard flees and the porter, his brother, throws a disdainful look at her. The artist has changed the story: Bernard did not flee from her, but merely refused to see her. The inscription reads: 'III. Quomodo fugebat ipse ante sororem suam' (How he fled before his sister). See also MA246-7 & 249-53.