MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA103.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	attributed to Jean Bellegambe (active 1504-34)
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	54.7x41.3
Provenance	?Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Greenville, South Carolina, Bob Jones University
Bibliography	Bob Jones University 1968, 47

Illustration From
Other illustrations	Bob Jones University 1968, ill 302

Country	France

Description:
Like a number of other Lactation pictures Bernard is the portrait of the donor, a Franco-Flemish Cistercian abbot represented in the guise of the saint. The half-figure of Bernard, his hands clasped in prayer and his crozier under his left arm kneels before the Virgin and the naked Child. The Virgin presses her breast with her left hand in the traditional fashion, but the usual scroll with Bernard's words is missing.

Description:

Like a number of other Lactation pictures Bernard is the portrait of the donor, a Franco-Flemish Cistercian abbot represented in the guise of the saint. The half-figure of Bernard, his hands clasped in prayer and his crozier under his left arm kneels before the Virgin and the naked Child. The Virgin presses her breast with her left hand in the traditional fashion, but the usual scroll with Bernard's words is missing.