MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA054.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Holy Family
Date	16C/1
Reference No	WRM 166
Size	39x34.5 (central panel) 35x13.5 (wings -each)
Provenance	Carthusian monastery ?
Present Location	Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Bibliography	Zehnder 1990, 303-8

Illustration From	Zehnder 1990, ill 191
Other illustrations

Country	Germany

Description:
Triptych dated 1514/15 painted for a Carthusian monastery by the Master of the Holy Family. The central panel features St Barbara and St Dorothy with the Christ Child, the left panel St Bruno in the Carthusian habit with a kneeling male religious donor, and the right panel Bernard in the white Cistercian cowl with white tunic and black scapular showing underneath. He carries a crozier in his left hand and his right hand is placed over the head of a kneeling female religious donor.

Description:

Triptych dated 1514/15 painted for a Carthusian monastery by the Master of the Holy Family. The central panel features St Barbara and St Dorothy with the Christ Child, the left panel St Bruno in the Carthusian habit with a kneeling male religious donor, and the right panel Bernard in the white Cistercian cowl with white tunic and black scapular showing underneath. He carries a crozier in his left hand and his right hand is placed over the head of a kneeling female religious donor.