MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA371.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/2
Reference No	MS 604, f 95v
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Chantilly, Musee Conde
Bibliography	Schmitt 1990, 155

Illustration From	photo - RMN (Rene-Gabriel Ojeda)
Other illustrations

Country	Spain

Description:
A sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript with a full-page miniature of a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl sitting on a high-backed chair with a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left. The smaller figure of a woman donor kneeling at his feet is Queen Jeanne la Folle (1504-55) in whose Prayerbook - 'Devocionario de la reina Juana La Loca' - it is found . Bernard is identified by the inscription 'San Bernat'.

Description:

A sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript with a full-page miniature of a nimbed Bernard in a white cowl sitting on a high-backed chair with a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left. The smaller figure of a woman donor kneeling at his feet is Queen Jeanne la Folle (1504-55) in whose Prayerbook - 'Devocionario de la reina Juana La Loca' - it is found . Bernard is identified by the inscription 'San Bernat'.