MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA387.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	North Italian
Date	15C/3
Reference No	MS Laur. Plut. XL, 1, f 328v
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, 460
Other illustrations	Brieger, Meiss, & Singleton 1969, pl 515b

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 32 has Dante standing behind a naked Bernard, identified only by his golden halo, who is pointing to the Virgin seated in the sky and flanked by the naked and nimbed figures of St Peter carrying a key and Moses with a long beard. One of three miniatures featuring Bernard in this manuscript (see also MA386 & 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 32 has Dante standing behind a naked Bernard, identified only by his golden halo, who is pointing to the Virgin seated in the sky and flanked by the naked and nimbed figures of St Peter carrying a key and Moses with a long beard. One of three miniatures featuring Bernard in this manuscript (see also MA386 & MA388).