MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA122.jpg

Category Painting
Origin: artist/workshop Assistant of Bernardo Daddi (end 1200's - c 1350)
Date 14C/2
Reference No
Size
Provenance Florence, Church of S. Maria Novella
Present Location Florence, Accademia
Bibliography Offner 2001, 257-72

Illustration From Offner 2001, ill XXII (8) (detail)
Other illustrations

Country Italy
Description:
Polyptych of the Coronation of the Virgin painted by an assistant of Bernardo Daddi for the Church of S. maria Novella, Florence. The two wings on the right feature 10 and 11 saints respectively. The left one of these has, from the top, Ignatius Theophorus, a warrior saint, and Bernard; then below a bishop saint, Benedict, and Pancras (?), below again King David, Gregory, and a sainted bishop, and at the bottom, Peter and John the Baptist. On the right are, from the top: a male martyr saint (Sebastian?), Lawrence, and afemale royal saint; then a young male saint with lance, Crescentius, and al female royal saint; then a sainted abbot, Francis, and Reparata; and at bottom Dominic and Thomas Aquinas. The saints on the left are: Bartholomew, John Evangelist, Paul, Peter Martyr, Catherine, Eugenius (?), Zenobius (?), Augustine (?), Abraham with Isaac and the ram below, Agnes, Miniatus (?), Anthony Abbot, Ambrose (?), John Gualbert, Stephen, Lucy, Elizabeth, 3 male saints, Mary Magdalen, 7 saints (only halos visible).