MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA328.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Flemish
Date	14C/2
Reference No	MS LM 11, f 114v
Size	19x12.5
Provenance
Present Location	Frankfurt am Main, Museum fuer Angewandte Kunst
Bibliography	Swarzenski & Schilling 1929, 1:148-50
	Panofsky 1966, 1:113-4; Eberbach 2003, 84
Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations	Swarzenski & Schilling 1929, 2:ill 49b
	Panofsky 1966, 2:pl 74, ill 160; Eberbach 2003, 84
Country	Belgium

Description:
One of three full-page Flemish miniatures from the first half of the fifteenth century inserted into an unrelated Latin and French Book of Hours (Use of Rome) from the second half of the fiftenth century, the other two depicting the Crucifixion and the Annunciation. It has Bernard in a white cowl with a book in his right hand and a crozier in his left standing on a tiled pavement. His nimbus consists of gold rays. A smaller red donor figure with a scroll containing a prayer in Flemish kneels on the left on a floor of square tiles. The figures are within a rosa frame with rosette corners within a border with feathery foliage.

Description:

One of three full-page Flemish miniatures from the first half of the fifteenth century inserted into an unrelated Latin and French Book of Hours (Use of Rome) from the second half of the fiftenth century, the other two depicting the Crucifixion and the Annunciation. It has Bernard in a white cowl with a book in his right hand and a crozier in his left standing on a tiled pavement. His nimbus consists of gold rays. A smaller red donor figure with a scroll containing a prayer in Flemish kneels on the left on a floor of square tiles. The figures are within a rosa frame with rosette corners within a border with feathery foliage.