MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA143.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Tomaso da Modena (1325/6-79)
Date	14C/3
Reference No
Size	70x86
Provenance	Treviso, Dominican Convent of St Paolo (?)
Present Location	Treviso, Museo Civico
Bibliography	Treviso 1979, 164
	Gibbs 1989, 89; Kaftal 1978, 145; Florence 1990, 29; Schmitt 1990, 163
Illustration From	Treviso 1979, 164
Other illustrations	Gibbs 1989, 22 a (inner face with niches) & 22b (outer face with painted figures)
	Florence 1990, ill 4
Country	Italy

Description:
A triptych reliquary commissioned by the Dominican Fra Francesco da Montebelluna in 1352. The central panel has St Benedict and St Catherine with the donor kneeling, the left St Dominic, and the right Bernard with a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right, all on a green background. The small nun who kneels at the feet of St Dominic indicates the probable provenance of the Convent of St Paolo in Treviso. The text at the base reads: ANNO DNI MCCCLII FR FRANCESC' D MOTEBELU / ORDIS FRM PDICATORUM FECIT FIERI HAC ANCONA AD HONOREM DEI / ...SCM QUORUM RELQE SUT HIC POSITE.

Description:

A triptych reliquary commissioned by the Dominican Fra Francesco da Montebelluna in 1352. The central panel has St Benedict and St Catherine with the donor kneeling, the left St Dominic, and the right Bernard with a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right, all on a green background. The small nun who kneels at the feet of St Dominic indicates the probable provenance of the Convent of St Paolo in Treviso. The text at the base reads: ANNO DNI MCCCLII FR FRANCESC' D MOTEBELU / ORDIS FRM PDICATORUM FECIT FIERI HAC ANCONA AD HONOREM DEI / ...SCM QUORUM RELQE SUT HIC POSITE.