MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA040.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Joerg Breu (c 1475/80-1536)
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	74x74
Provenance	Zwettl Cistercian Abbey, abbot's chapel
Present Location	Zwettl Abbey Church
Bibliography	VP1:4:23-4 (PL185:240-1); Buberl 1940, 113; Kubes & Roessl 1979, 7-14; Dijon 1953, 57; Tomaschek 1989, 40-3
	Zwettl 1981, 743-5; Paffrath 1984, 421; Sprusansky 1991, 43-4; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 338
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, 373
Other illustrations	Buberl 1940, ill 85 (also 82.3); Tomaschek 1989, 42
	Zwettl 1981, 744; Sprusansky 1991, ill 12; Dijon 1953, ill 13
Country	Austria

Description:
The outer side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (seen when the wings are closed) on the left, lower panel, depicts Bernard in a black cowl at field work, kneeling in prayer with a sickle under his arm. Four monks in white tunics and black scapulars are at work cutting corn with sickles and tying it in sheaves. In the background a view of a landscape with houses, a lake, and mountains. In the foreground a small white dog. (See also SC10, PA038-9 & 041-5).

Description:

The outer side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (seen when the wings are closed) on the left, lower panel, depicts Bernard in a black cowl at field work, kneeling in prayer with a sickle under his arm. Four monks in white tunics and black scapulars are at work cutting corn with sickles and tying it in sheaves. In the background a view of a landscape with houses, a lake, and mountains. In the foreground a small white dog. (See also SC10, PA038-9 & 041-5).