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'.