MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA063.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Madonna of Palazzo Venezia
Date	14C/2
Reference No	Inv. 1071A
Size	56.4x25
Provenance
Present Location	Berlin, Gemaeldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Bibliography	Gemaeldegalerie Berlin 1986, 49-50
	Boskovits 1987, 114-5
Illustration From	photo - Museum (Joerg P Anders)
Other illustrations	Boskovits 1987, ill 174
	Gemaeldegalerie Berlin 1986, ill 1146
Country	Italy

Description:
Bernard? The central panel of a triptych or the left part of a diptych painted on poplar by the Master of the Madonna of the Palazzo Venezia who was active in Siena in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. The central figure of the Virgin and Child is flanked by St Francis and St James Major on the left and a saint-abbot in white cowl and a saint-deacon on the right. The abbot is possibly Bernard, but, being I talian, may also represent St Benedict or St Romuald. In the gable above three medallions feature the Man of Sorrows, St Mary Magdalen, and St John Evangelist.

Description:

Bernard? The central panel of a triptych or the left part of a diptych painted on poplar by the Master of the Madonna of the Palazzo Venezia who was active in Siena in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. The central figure of the Virgin and Child is flanked by St Francis and St James Major on the left and a saint-abbot in white cowl and a saint-deacon on the right. The abbot is possibly Bernard, but, being I talian, may also represent St Benedict or St Romuald. In the gable above three medallions feature the Man of Sorrows, St Mary Magdalen, and St John Evangelist.