MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA096.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Antwerp School
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Cistercian Nuns' Abbey Church, Roermond, Netherlands
Present Location	Cistercian Nuns' Abbey Church, Roermond, Netherlands
Bibliography	Slenders & Smeets 1984, 83
	Dewez & Iterson 1956, 179
Illustration From	photo - Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg, Zeist
Other illustrations	Slenders & Smeets 1984, 83

Country	Belgium

Description:
The triptych of the Antwerp School dated c. 1500 in the Cistercian Nuns' Church at Roermond in the Netherlands has the Crucifixion in the centre. The reverse of the left wing is a Lactation scene, of the right wing the Coronation of the Virgin. Bernard kneels in a church before the seated Virgin and Child. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand. Above Bernard is the inscription 'Monstra te esse matrem'. Two Cistercian monks are in the background. See also SC50.

Description:

The triptych of the Antwerp School dated c. 1500 in the Cistercian Nuns' Church at Roermond in the Netherlands has the Crucifixion in the centre. The reverse of the left wing is a Lactation scene, of the right wing the Coronation of the Virgin. Bernard kneels in a church before the seated Virgin and Child. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand. Above Bernard is the inscription 'Monstra te esse matrem'. Two Cistercian monks are in the background. See also SC50.