MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA140.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Tuscan-Emilian School
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	49x42
Provenance	Faenza, Cistercian Abbey of S. Maria Vecchia
Present Location	Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale
Bibliography	Florence 1990, 66 & 156; Kaftal 1978, 145
	Dal Pra 1990, 367
Illustration From	Florence 1990, 157; Kaftal 1978, ill 187
Other illustrations	Dal Pra 1990, ill 12

Country	Italy

Description:
A Lactation image from the beginning of the sixteenth century has a nimbed Bernard kneeling before a desk on which is an open book and an inkwell. He has a pen in his right hand. He is looking up at the Virgin and Child standing before him and surrounded by angels. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand. She is surrounded by seven small angels. A tiny donor figure kneels in the bottom lefthand corner. In the background are trees and a large church. Although the painting has the charactersistics of a Doctrina image, it is in fact a Lactation picture, rare for Italy. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

A Lactation image from the beginning of the sixteenth century has a nimbed Bernard kneeling before a desk on which is an open book and an inkwell. He has a pen in his right hand. He is looking up at the Virgin and Child standing before him and surrounded by angels. The Virgin bares her right breast which she squeezes with her right hand. She is surrounded by seven small angels. A tiny donor figure kneels in the bottom lefthand corner. In the background are trees and a large church. Although the painting has the charactersistics of a Doctrina image, it is in fact a Lactation picture, rare for Italy. Bernard has 'tuft'.