MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA045.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	VP5:2:13 (PL185:359); 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, 378
Other illustrations	Buberl 1940, 82.6; Tomaschek 1989, 42
	Zwettl 1981, 744
Country	Austria

Description:
The inner side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (visible when the wings are open) on the right, lower panel, depicts the burial of Bernard. In the front there are two novices carrying a processional cross and an aspersorium followed by four monks carrying Bernard's coffin draped with a black cloth with a white cross. On the left is a cemetery with a dug grave ready to receive the coffin beside which are two grave diggers and three more monks. In the background there is a castle in the middle of a lake surrounded by trees (see also SC10 and PA038-044).

Description:

The inner side of the wings painted by Joerg Breu in 1500 (visible when the wings are open) on the right, lower panel, depicts the burial of Bernard. In the front there are two novices carrying a processional cross and an aspersorium followed by four monks carrying Bernard's coffin draped with a black cloth with a white cross. On the left is a cemetery with a dug grave ready to receive the coffin beside which are two grave diggers and three more monks. In the background there is a castle in the middle of a lake surrounded by trees (see also SC10 and PA038-044).