MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA130.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Martin Bernat (fl 1454-97)
Date	15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Tarazona (Zaragoza), Cathedral
Present Location	Tarazona (Zaragoza), Cathedral
Bibliography	Duran 1953, 48 & 50
	Dewez & Iterson 1956, 175
Illustration From	Duran 1953, ill 36
Other illustrations

Country	Spain

Description:
Fragment of an altarpiece in Tarazona cathedral painted by Martin Bernat c 1493. A nimbed Bernard, wearing a richly-embroidered cope over an alb and a cap and with a crozier in his right hand and his left hand resting on an open book beside him on a table or an altar, looks up at the tiny figures of the Virgin and Child within a mandorla and standing on a cloud. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand.

Description:

Fragment of an altarpiece in Tarazona cathedral painted by Martin Bernat c 1493. A nimbed Bernard, wearing a richly-embroidered cope over an alb and a cap and with a crozier in his right hand and his left hand resting on an open book beside him on a table or an altar, looks up at the tiny figures of the Virgin and Child within a mandorla and standing on a cloud. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand.