MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA104.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Mosan School
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Mx/2495 AMC 212
Size	50.5x43.5
Provenance
Present Location	Liege, Musee Curtius
Bibliography

Illustration From	photo - IRPA-KIK, Brussels
Other illustrations

Country	Belgium

Description:
A 'Sacra Conversazione' from c 1500 of 'Anna Selbdritt' - that is St Anne, enthroned and holding an open book, with the Virgin and Child at her feet - flanked by St Matthew (or St Thomas) and Bernard, holding a crozier with sudarium in his right hand and with his right hand on the head of a smaller kneeling abbess in a black cowl and a grey veil who has a crozier leaning on her left shoulder and holds an open book in her hands. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

A 'Sacra Conversazione' from c 1500 of 'Anna Selbdritt' - that is St Anne, enthroned and holding an open book, with the Virgin and Child at her feet - flanked by St Matthew (or St Thomas) and Bernard, holding a crozier with sudarium in his right hand and with his right hand on the head of a smaller kneeling abbess in a black cowl and a grey veil who has a crozier leaning on her left shoulder and holds an open book in her hands. Bernard has 'tuft'.