MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA386.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	North Italian
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Laur.Plut. XL, 1, f 325v (detail)
Size
Provenance
Present Location	Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Bibliography	Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, 224-30; Rome 2000, 458-61
	Roddewig 1984, 42
Illustration From	Rome 2000, 459
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
From a Dante manuscript dated 1456 including Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso and with a commentary by Francesco da Buti. A miniature illustrating Canto 31 has a naked Bernard, only identified by his golden halo, turning to Dante behind him and pointing to the seated Virgin in the sky within a mandorla. Below her four souls (ie naked figures) are seated. This miniature is modelled on an almost identical image in a Paduan Dante manuscript (see MA276). It is one of three miniatures featuring Bernard (see also MA387 & MA388).

Description:

From a Dante manuscript dated 1456 including Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso and with a commentary by Francesco da Buti. A miniature illustrating Canto 31 has a naked Bernard, only identified by his golden halo, turning to Dante behind him and pointing to the seated Virgin in the sky within a mandorla. Below her four souls (ie naked figures) are seated. This miniature is modelled on an almost identical image in a Paduan Dante manuscript (see MA276). It is one of three miniatures featuring Bernard (see also MA387 & MA388).