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Altarpiece painted by Filippino Lippi in 1486. The Virgin and Child enthroned with two angels holding the crown over the Virgin's head. She is flanked by John the Baptist and Victor on the left and Bernard and Zenobius of Florence on the right. Bernard holds an open book with the words: TU PATRONA HUMANI GENERIS. TU AFFLICTIS MEDICA SINGULARIS...(You are the patron and the supreme healer of the human race), perhaps, according to Kaftal, a paraphrase of 'apotheca salutis hominum' taken from the pseudo-Bernard poem 'Oratio devota ad Dominum Jesum et B. Mariam Matrem eius' (PL184:1325). Bernard has 'tuft'. |