MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA060.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	EM 2:7 (Griesser 1961, 102-3); Bushart 1957, 81-100 Posset 2003,284
	Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie 1992, 224-30
Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations	Bushart 1957, ill 4; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie 1992, 229 Posset 2003,285
	Rueckert & Planck 2001, ill 4
Country	Germany

Description:
One of eight scenes from the lives of the saints painted in 1432, five of them depicting Bernard, from 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 lower picture on the left outside features Christ descending from the Cross to embrace Bernard. Bernard's crozier lies on the ground. At the top of the Cross is the inscription INRI. The small firgure of the monk may be seen on the left, perhaps the monk who witnessed the vision as recorded in the 'Exordium Magnum'. See also PA057-9 and PA061.

Description:

One of eight scenes from the lives of the saints painted in 1432, five of them depicting Bernard, from 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 lower picture on the left outside features Christ descending from the Cross to embrace Bernard. Bernard's crozier lies on the ground. At the top of the Cross is the inscription INRI. The small firgure of the monk may be seen on the left, perhaps the monk who witnessed the vision as recorded in the 'Exordium Magnum'. See also PA057-9 and PA061.