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.

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.