MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA057.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Maulbronn Altar
Date	15C/2
Reference No	Inv 1634
Size	57.8x40.8
Provenance	Maulbronn Cistercian Church
Present Location	Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie
Bibliography	Bushart 1957, 81-100
	Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie 1992, 224-30
Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations	Bushart 1957, ill 2
	Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie 1992, 226; Rueckert & Planck 2001, ill 2
Country	Germany

Description:
One of eight scenes from the lives of the saints painted 1432, five of them depicting Bernard, from the two side wings of an altarpiece from one of the side chapels built at Maulbronn in 1424, four of them on the inside and four on the outside. The other saints featured are Dominic, Leonard and Theodul (=Jodokus), and Francis. The centre measures 104x87, the left wing 115.8x40.8, and the right wing 115.5x39.3. The top picture on the inside shows Bernard teaching a large group of monks in a vaulted chamber resembling a chapter house. An open book is before him. Above an angel holds a scroll, the inscription on which is no longer legible. See also PA058-PA061.

Description:

One of eight scenes from the lives of the saints painted 1432, five of them depicting Bernard, from the two side wings of an altarpiece from one of the side chapels built at Maulbronn in 1424, four of them on the inside and four on the outside. The other saints featured are Dominic, Leonard and Theodul (=Jodokus), and Francis. The centre measures 104x87, the left wing 115.8x40.8, and the right wing 115.5x39.3. The top picture on the inside shows Bernard teaching a large group of monks in a vaulted chamber resembling a chapter house. An open book is before him. Above an angel holds a scroll, the inscription on which is no longer legible. See also PA058-PA061.