MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA061.jpg

Category Painting
Origin: artist/workshop Master of the Maulbronn Altar
Date 15C/2
Reference No Inv 1634
Size 57.8x39.3
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 4

Rueckert & Planck 2001, ill 5
Country Germany
Description:
One of eight scenes from the lives of the saints painted in 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 lower picture on the right outside features Bernard with a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left surrounded by the poor, sick, and crippled for whom he did so much by way of healing. The scene is in a landscape with trees and a fence in the background. Bernard is wearing a black cowl, but he holds this up so that the white of his tunic shows. See also PA057-060.