MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA037.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Fra Angelico da Fiesole (c 1400-1455)
Date	15C/1
Reference No	NG 663.2
Size	33.4x65.6
Provenance	Fiesole, Church of St Domenico
Present Location	London, National Gallery
Bibliography	Gordon 2003, 2-25; Baker & Henry 1995, 4
	Dunkerton 1991, 48-9; Davies 1961, 16
Illustration From	Gordon 2003, ill 5
Other illustrations	Dunkerton 1991, 49
	Baker & Henry 1995, 4
Country	Italy

Description:
Bernard? The predella of the high altarpiece depicting Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven (the central panel 32x73) was painted by Fra Angelico between 1419 and 1435, probably in the mid-twenties, for the Dominican church in Fiesole. The inner left and right panels each measure 32x63.5 and the outer panels featuring Dominican saints 32x22. The right panel has the forerunners of Christ with saints and martyrs, the left the Virgin (top right) with the apostles and evangelists nearest to her in the top two rows. After them, in the top row, Silvester, Hilary and other saints. below, Jerome, Anthony, Anthony Abbot, Maurus (?), Benedict, Augustine, unidentified, Thomas Aquinas, Anthony of Padua, unidentified, and Bernard (?) with a book.

Description:

Bernard? The predella of the high altarpiece depicting Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven (the central panel 32x73) was painted by Fra Angelico between 1419 and 1435, probably in the mid-twenties, for the Dominican church in Fiesole. The inner left and right panels each measure 32x63.5 and the outer panels featuring Dominican saints 32x22. The right panel has the forerunners of Christ with saints and martyrs, the left the Virgin (top right) with the apostles and evangelists nearest to her in the top two rows. After them, in the top row, Silvester, Hilary and other saints. below, Jerome, Anthony, Anthony Abbot, Maurus (?), Benedict, Augustine, unidentified, Thomas Aquinas, Anthony of Padua, unidentified, and Bernard (?) with a book.