MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA271.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Florentine School
Date	15C/4
Reference No	MS Acq. e Doni 54, f IIIr (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Bibliography	Florence 1990, 140-2

Illustration From	Florence 1990, 141 (whole folio), Florence 1990, 143 (detail)
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
A manuscript of Bernard's Sermons in Italian from an Augustinian monastery dated c 1481 has an image of Bernard within the initial B(ernardo) in red, blue and green. A nimbed and bearded Bernard is sitting at a desk writing on a roll of parchment. He is looking up at a much half-figure of the Virgin in the sky whose arms are stretched out towards him. There are a number of books on a shelf behind Bernard. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

A manuscript of Bernard's Sermons in Italian from an Augustinian monastery dated c 1481 has an image of Bernard within the initial B(ernardo) in red, blue and green. A nimbed and bearded Bernard is sitting at a desk writing on a roll of parchment. He is looking up at a much half-figure of the Virgin in the sky whose arms are stretched out towards him. There are a number of books on a shelf behind Bernard. Bernard has 'tuft'.