MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA074.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Glorification of Mary
Date	15C/3
Reference No	WRM 119
Size	163x197
Provenance	Cologne, St Bridget's Church
Present Location	Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Bibliography	Zehnder 1990, 405-10
	Wallraf-Richartz 1986, 58
Illustration From	Zehnder 1990, ill 261
Other illustrations	Wallraf-Richartz 1986, ill 163

Country	Germany

Description:
Altarpiece of the Glorification of the Virgin painted c 1470 for the Church of St Bridget, Cologne. The Virgin with Child is seated on a throne in the heavens surrounded by angels, two of them holding a crown over her head. She is flanked by God the Father on the left and the Holy Spirit on the right, each also surrounded by angels. A large group of female saints headed by Catherine on the left and male saints headed by John the Baptist on the right complete the composition. Among the male saints the tonsured head of Bernard may be seen.

Description:

Altarpiece of the Glorification of the Virgin painted c 1470 for the Church of St Bridget, Cologne. The Virgin with Child is seated on a throne in the heavens surrounded by angels, two of them holding a crown over her head. She is flanked by God the Father on the left and the Holy Spirit on the right, each also surrounded by angels. A large group of female saints headed by Catherine on the left and male saints headed by John the Baptist on the right complete the composition. Among the male saints the tonsured head of Bernard may be seen.