MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA383.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Venetian
Date	14C/4
Reference No	MS Marc. It. IX, 276 (=6902), f 76r
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	Samek-Ludovici 1979, 118-9

Country	Italy

Description:
This Venetian manuscript of the Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso from the end of the fourteenth century contains altogether 234 miniatures. The Paradiso illustrations, however, are inferior in quality. Three of these feature Bernard, two in Canto 31 (f 75r & f 75v - see MA381 & MA382) and this one Canto 32 (f 76r). A bearded and nimbed Bernard in a dark brown cowl shows Dante Gabriel kneeling before the Virgin enthroned between angels and members of the Old and New Testament.

Description:

This Venetian manuscript of the Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso from the end of the fourteenth century contains altogether 234 miniatures. The Paradiso illustrations, however, are inferior in quality. Three of these feature Bernard, two in Canto 31 (f 75r & f 75v - see MA381 & MA382) and this one Canto 32 (f 76r). A bearded and nimbed Bernard in a dark brown cowl shows Dante Gabriel kneeling before the Virgin enthroned between angels and members of the Old and New Testament.