MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA041.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	VP1:9:44 (PL185:253); Buberl 1940, 113; Kubes & Roessl 1979, 7-14; Tomaschek 1989, 40-3
	Zwettl 1981, 743-5; Paffrath 1984, 421; Dijon 1953, 57; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 338
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, 374
Other illustrations	Buberl 1940, ill 82.4; Tomaschek 1989, 42 & 43
	Zwettl 1981, 744
Country	Austria

Description:
The outer side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (seen when the wings are closed) on the right, lower panel, depicts two of Bernard's miracles. On the left he is shown in a black cowl, with the white tunic underneath visible, healing a small crippled boy by making the sign of the Cross, and on the right he is again, this time healing a blind boy by laying his right hand on him. There is a tiny white dog in the foreground. In the background a mountainous landscape with deer and trees, a river in which a man is fishing, and a house on a lake (see also SC10, PA038-040, and PA042-5).

Description:

The outer side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (seen when the wings are closed) on the right, lower panel, depicts two of Bernard's miracles. On the left he is shown in a black cowl, with the white tunic underneath visible, healing a small crippled boy by making the sign of the Cross, and on the right he is again, this time healing a blind boy by laying his right hand on him. There is a tiny white dog in the foreground. In the background a mountainous landscape with deer and trees, a river in which a man is fishing, and a house on a lake (see also SC10, PA038-040, and PA042-5).