MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA109.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Neri di Bicci (1419-c1491)
Date	15C/2
Reference No	61.78 (Kress Collection K 254)
Size	123.5x81.9
Provenance	Florence, Church of Santissima Annunziata
Present Location	Oberlin, Ohio, Allen memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Kress Study Collection, 1961
Bibliography	Shapley 1966, 112-3
	Oberlin catalogue 1967, 116; Fredericksen & Zeri 1972, 366; Berenson 1963, 156
Illustration From	photo - Museum
Other illustrations	Shapley 1966, ill 309

Country	Italy

Description:
The left wing of an altarpiece painted c 1445 by Neri di Bicci, son of Lorenzo di Bicci whose pupil he was, for the Villani di Stoldo family chapel in the left transept of the Santissima Annunziata Church in Florence. In the lower row St Margaret, St John the Baptist, and St James Major, and behind a bearded St Bernard in a white cowl and holding an open book with both hands from which he is reading, and St Matthew. Bernard was the patron of one of the sons of the testator. The centre of the altarpiece with the Madonna is now missing, and the right with five more saints - Francis, Philip, Catherine, Jerome, and Albertus Magnus (?) - is in the Accademia, Florence.

Description:

The left wing of an altarpiece painted c 1445 by Neri di Bicci, son of Lorenzo di Bicci whose pupil he was, for the Villani di Stoldo family chapel in the left transept of the Santissima Annunziata Church in Florence. In the lower row St Margaret, St John the Baptist, and St James Major, and behind a bearded St Bernard in a white cowl and holding an open book with both hands from which he is reading, and St Matthew. Bernard was the patron of one of the sons of the testator. The centre of the altarpiece with the Madonna is now missing, and the right with five more saints - Francis, Philip, Catherine, Jerome, and Albertus Magnus (?) - is in the Accademia, Florence.