MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - MA389.jpg


Category	Manuscript
Origin: artist/workshop	Nikolaus Bertschi
Date	16C/2
Reference No	MS clm 28150, f 199v (detail)
Size
Provenance	Kaisheim Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Bibliography	Merkl 1999, 303-5

Illustration From	photo - Library
Other illustrations

Country	Germany

Description:
Historiated initial in an Antiphonary painted by Nikolaus Bertschi in 1531 for the Cistercian abbey of Kaisheim. Within a red and green border and the decorated rosa initial 'A' the lifeless body of the cross-nimbed Christ with a green crown of thorns with arms detached from a T-Cross is supported from below by the standing figure of Bernard in a black cowl. The INRI inscription is above the cross. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

Historiated initial in an Antiphonary painted by Nikolaus Bertschi in 1531 for the Cistercian abbey of Kaisheim. Within a red and green border and the decorated rosa initial 'A' the lifeless body of the cross-nimbed Christ with a green crown of thorns with arms detached from a T-Cross is supported from below by the standing figure of Bernard in a black cowl. The INRI inscription is above the cross. Bernard has 'tuft'.