MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA277.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop Bruges
Date 15C/3
Reference No f 119v
Size
Provenance Bruges
Present Location unknown - Christie's Sale 11/7/2000, lot 57
Bibliography Christie's Sale Catalogue 11/7/2000

Illustration From photo - Christie's
Other illustrations

Country Belgium
Description:
Book of Hours, use of Rome in Latin, probably from Bruges c 1450. One of 32 full-page arch-topped miniatures with full decorated borders has the standing figure of a nimbed and youthful-looking Bernard in a white cowl with a black tunic showing beneath, carrying a gold crozier in his right hand and a red book in his left, and trampling on a smaller devil with a human face, a beard, horns, and pointed ears lying on the ground. Bernard stands on a tiled floor above which is a bright blue brick wall.