MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA148.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Filippino Lippi (1457-1504)
Date	15C/4
Reference No	Inv 1468
Size	355x225,5
Provenance
Present Location	Florence, Uffizi Gallery
Bibliography	Paffrath 1990, 46; Berenson 1963, 109
	Florence 1990, 55; Kaftal 1952, 177-8; Scharf 1935, 110; van Marle 1923-38, 12:316
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 46
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, ill 30; Berenson 1963, ill 1147
	Scharf 1935, ill 46; van Marle 1923-38, 12:ill 200
Country	Italy

Description:
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'.

Description:

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'.