MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA132.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	School of Ghent
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Inv. 107
Size	92x128
Provenance	Cistercian Abbey of Baudeloo
Present Location	Gent, Musee des Beaux-Arts
Bibliography	Dupeux 1993, 161

Illustration From	photo - IRPA-KIK, Brussels
Other illustrations	Dupeux 1993, 166
	Dewez & Iterson 1956, after p 180
Country	Belgium

Description:
An anonymous Lactation painting of the Flemish School dated c 1520. The twenty-sixth abbot of Baudeloo, Jean van Deynse, in the guise of Bernard kneels on a tiled floor in a church, an open book in his right hand and his crozier under his right arm. The left hand is stretched out to the seated Virgin & Child. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand. The tiny figure of a Cistercian monk kneels in prayer in the background.

Description:

An anonymous Lactation painting of the Flemish School dated c 1520. The twenty-sixth abbot of Baudeloo, Jean van Deynse, in the guise of Bernard kneels on a tiled floor in a church, an open book in his right hand and his crozier under his right arm. The left hand is stretched out to the seated Virgin & Child. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand. The tiny figure of a Cistercian monk kneels in prayer in the background.