MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA151.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Pietro Perugino (c1450-1523)
Date	15C/4
Reference No	Inv WAF 764
Size	160x173
Provenance	Florence, Cistercian Church of Santa Maddalena dei Pazzi
Present Location	Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Bibliography	Paffrath 1990, 48; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 338; Schmitt 1990, 159; Gariboldi 1999, 110
	Florence 1990, 61; Scarpellini 1984, 84-5; Schmitt 1990, 159; Berenson 1968, 1:329
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 48
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, ill 33
	Scarpellini 1984, ill 75 (and ill 74 - detail); Berenson 1952, ill 308
Country	Italy

Description:
Painted by Pietro Perugino c 1489-90. Commissioned by Bernard & Philip di Luttozzo Nasi for their family chapel in the Cistercian church of S Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. Bernard sits at a desk on which is an open book. He has both hands raised and is looking up at the standing figure of the Virgin before him. She is accompanied by two angels and with her right hand is pointing to Bernard's book with her right. St Bartlomomew and St Philip stand beside Bernard. The scene is a vaulted hall with pillars with a rocky landscape in the background.

Description:

Painted by Pietro Perugino c 1489-90. Commissioned by Bernard & Philip di Luttozzo Nasi for their family chapel in the Cistercian church of S Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. Bernard sits at a desk on which is an open book. He has both hands raised and is looking up at the standing figure of the Virgin before him. She is accompanied by two angels and with her right hand is pointing to Bernard's book with her right. St Bartlomomew and St Philip stand beside Bernard. The scene is a vaulted hall with pillars with a rocky landscape in the background.