MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA368.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No	MS CFM Marley Cutting Fl 6
Size	19.7x10.5
Provenance	Nuremberg?
Present Location	Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
Bibliography	Wormald & Giles 1982, 1:98-9

Illustration From	James Marrow
Other illustrations

Country	Germany

Description:
One of six cuttings from a choir-book with miniatures dated c 1520. Flemish or German with script and notation Germanic, and some resemblance to Duerer suggests possible Nuremberg provenance. Amplexus image framed by grey stone pilasters in an open landscape. A nimbed Bernard in a black cowl is supporting a pale Christ with arms detached from the T-Cross who bends down to embrace him. The Cross has the inscription INRI. Bernard's crozier leans against a pillar on the right.

Description:

One of six cuttings from a choir-book with miniatures dated c 1520. Flemish or German with script and notation Germanic, and some resemblance to Duerer suggests possible Nuremberg provenance. Amplexus image framed by grey stone pilasters in an open landscape. A nimbed Bernard in a black cowl is supporting a pale Christ with arms detached from the T-Cross who bends down to embrace him. The Cross has the inscription INRI. Bernard's crozier leans against a pillar on the right.