MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA012.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Palma Master
Date	13C/4
Reference No
Size	76.5x75
Provenance	Templars' Church, Palma
Present Location	Palma, Museu de Mallorca
Bibliography	Duran 1953, 38-49; Dupeux 1991, 170; Dupeux 1993, 155-6; Paffrath 1984, 191 & 409; Paris 1990, 200; France 1998, 30-1
	Berlioz 1988, 270; Bernard de Clairvaux 1992, text to pl 8; Schmitt 1990, 155-6; Dewez & Iterson 1956, 174; Dal Pra 1990, 366-7; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 337 & 339
Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations	Duran 1953, ill 4; Roux 1998, 123; Paris 1990, 23; Dupeux 1991, ill 2; Elm 1994, ill 2;
	Koepf 1994, ill 2; Cocheril 1979, ill 17; Dewez & Iterson 1956, ill 1; Bynum 1987, ill 18
Country	Spain

Description:
One of the four lateral scenes (top left) flanking the central representation of Bernard (PA011) from the Palma retable painted 1290. This is of particular interest as it is the first known example of the Lactation, pre-dating the first literary source by several decades. A standing Virgin holds a cross-nimbed Child on her right arm while holding her breast with her left hand from which a squirt of milk falls into the mouth of a kneeling Bernard in a white cowl with his head raised, hands clasped in prayer. Two nimbed angels hold the same kind of candles as are featured in the central picture and a third angel stands by. See also PA011 for the central picture and PA013-PA015 for the other lateral scenes.

Description:

One of the four lateral scenes (top left) flanking the central representation of Bernard (PA011) from the Palma retable painted 1290. This is of particular interest as it is the first known example of the Lactation, pre-dating the first literary source by several decades. A standing Virgin holds a cross-nimbed Child on her right arm while holding her breast with her left hand from which a squirt of milk falls into the mouth of a kneeling Bernard in a white cowl with his head raised, hands clasped in prayer. Two nimbed angels hold the same kind of candles as are featured in the central picture and a third angel stands by. See also PA011 for the central picture and PA013-PA015 for the other lateral scenes.