MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA051.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Lower Rhine
Date	16C/1
Reference No	WRM 3167
Size	59.5x42.5
Provenance
Present Location	Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Bibliography	Wallraf-Richartz 1969, 110
	Wallraf-Richartz 1986, 68
Illustration From	Wallraf-Richartz 1969, ill 126
Other illustrations	Wallraf-Richartz 1986, ill 221

Country	Germany

Description:
A Lactation scene from c 1500. Bernard, unusually in a violet-red cowl, with hands clasped in prayer and a crozier under the left arm kneels before the Virgin who presses her breast with her right hand and holds the naked Child on her lap with her left hand. The canopy above her has the inscription 'Ave Regina Celorvh(m)' ('Hail, Queen of Heaven'). Above Bernard is the traditional Lactation inscription 'Monstra te esse matrem'. In the background is an altar and through a doorway a landscape with trees and a church. Bernard has a 'tuft'.

Description:

A Lactation scene from c 1500. Bernard, unusually in a violet-red cowl, with hands clasped in prayer and a crozier under the left arm kneels before the Virgin who presses her breast with her right hand and holds the naked Child on her lap with her left hand. The canopy above her has the inscription 'Ave Regina Celorvh(m)' ('Hail, Queen of Heaven'). Above Bernard is the traditional Lactation inscription 'Monstra te esse matrem'. In the background is an altar and through a doorway a landscape with trees and a church. Bernard has a 'tuft'.