MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA105.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	South Netherlandish
Date	15C/3
Reference No	Inv. 352
Size	27.6x23.2
Provenance
Present Location	Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Bibliography	Coo 1960, 112-3
	Mund, Stroo & Goetghebeur 2003, 351-65
Illustration From	IRPA-KIK, Brussels
Other illustrations	Mund, Stroo & Goetghebeur 2003, 350
	Dupeux 1993, 165
Country	Belgium

Description:
A Lactation painting from the second half of the fifteenth century of half-figures of Bernard kneeling in prayer with his crozier with sudarium under his right arm before the Virgin and Child. The Virgin, seated against a damask hanging, bares her breast which she squeezes with her left hand. Through a window behind Bernard is a landscape with a church on a hill on the horizon. Above Bernard is a scroll with 'Monstra te esse matrem'. Probably a Cistercian abbot portrait. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

A Lactation painting from the second half of the fifteenth century of half-figures of Bernard kneeling in prayer with his crozier with sudarium under his right arm before the Virgin and Child. The Virgin, seated against a damask hanging, bares her breast which she squeezes with her left hand. Through a window behind Bernard is a landscape with a church on a hill on the horizon. Above Bernard is a scroll with 'Monstra te esse matrem'. Probably a Cistercian abbot portrait. Bernard has 'tuft'.