MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA125.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Fabriano Altar
Date	14C/3
Reference No	Inv No 16
Size	69x38
Provenance	Florence
Present Location	Altenburg, Staatliches Lindenau-Kunstmuseum, Gemaelde Sammlung
Bibliography	Oertel 1961, 116-8
	Offner 2001, 514-7
Illustration From	Oertel 1964, ill 33 (detail)
Other illustrations	Offner 2001, ill 55 (whole panel)

Country	Italy

Description:
Panel painted on poplar c 1360, probably the central part of a triptych showing the Coronation of the Virgin. Christ sits on a Gothic throne on the left and places a crown on the head of Mary who is surrounded by angels. Below is a row of ten more angels, the one on the right playing a long tuba from which hangs a gold banner with a white cross, while one on the left plays a bagpipe. On the side of the throne are symmetrically placed saints, on the left John the Baptist, Paul, John the Evangelist (?), Augustine, Stephen, and (in this detail) Benedict & Clara; on the right Peter, Francis, a bishop, Laurence, Dominic, and (in this detail) Catherine & Bernard.

Description:

Panel painted on poplar c 1360, probably the central part of a triptych showing the Coronation of the Virgin. Christ sits on a Gothic throne on the left and places a crown on the head of Mary who is surrounded by angels. Below is a row of ten more angels, the one on the right playing a long tuba from which hangs a gold banner with a white cross, while one on the left plays a bagpipe. On the side of the throne are symmetrically placed saints, on the left John the Baptist, Paul, John the Evangelist (?), Augustine, Stephen, and (in this detail) Benedict & Clara; on the right Peter, Francis, a bishop, Laurence, Dominic, and (in this detail) Catherine & Bernard.