MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA043.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	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, 376
Other illustrations	Buberl 1940, 82.5; Tomaschek 1989, 42
	Zwettl 1981, 744; Jaritz 2000, ill 11
Country	Austria

Description:
The inner side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (visible when the wings are open) on the right, upper panel, depicts Bernard in a black cowl with a white tunic visible underneath, blessing the animals (horses, cows, sheep, goats, and pigs) by scattering salt. A tiny white dog jumps up at him. On the left a town with a Gothic church by the shore of a lake, on the right trees, and farm buildings with a plough in the farmyard (see also SC10, PA038-042, and PA044-5). There is no literary source to this image.

Description:

The inner side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (visible when the wings are open) on the right, upper panel, depicts Bernard in a black cowl with a white tunic visible underneath, blessing the animals (horses, cows, sheep, goats, and pigs) by scattering salt. A tiny white dog jumps up at him. On the left a town with a Gothic church by the shore of a lake, on the right trees, and farm buildings with a plough in the farmyard (see also SC10, PA038-042, and PA044-5). There is no literary source to this image.