MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA381.jpg

Category Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop Venetian
Date 14C/4
Reference No MS Marc. It. IX, 276 (=6902), f 75r (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Bibliography Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, 332

Roddewig 1984, 338-9; Samek-Ludovici, 1979
Illustration From photo - Library
Other illustrations Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, pl 512a

Pope-Hennessy 1993, ill 34
Country Italy
Description:
This Venetian manuscript of the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso from the end of the fourteenth century contains 234 miniatures. The Paradiso illustrations, however, are inferior in quality. Three of these featured Bernard, two in Canto 31 (this one and f 75v - see MA382), and one Canto 33 (f 76r - see MA383). On the right Dante in a red garment and a nimbed Bernard in a dark brown cowl look up at the Rose with the head of God in the centre and angels and souls and the figure of Beatrice in the petals.