MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA156.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Rinuccini Chapel
Date	14C/3
Reference No	Inv 8463
Size
Provenance	Florence, Cistercian Abbey of Settimo
Present Location	Florence, Accademia
Bibliography	VP1:3:10-1 (PL185:232-3); LA 211; Paffrath 1990, 40; Dal Pra 1990, 354-5; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 338
	Florence 1990, 106; Kaftal 1952, 177-80; Clark 1981-2, 175-87; Berenson 1963, 1:143; Fremantle 1975, 201
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 40
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, 107
	Kaftal 1952, ill 189; Fremantle 1975, ill 403; Dante 1965, 495; Martin 1925, 38
Country	Italy

Description:
The Doctrina Altarpiece by the Master of the Rinuccini Chapel from the third quarter of the fourteenth century (see PA155) has a predella with one scene from the lives of the four saints featured on the sides panels - Benedict, John the Evangelist, Quentin, and Galgano - and, in the centre, two from the life of Bernard (see also PA157). Bernard sits surrounded by a number of his monks. He greets his five brothers standing before him, from the left Nivard, Bartholomew, Andrew, Gerard, and Guy. Bernard holds the hand of Gerard, identified by the wound in his side which he received when still a soldier.

Description:

The Doctrina Altarpiece by the Master of the Rinuccini Chapel from the third quarter of the fourteenth century (see PA155) has a predella with one scene from the lives of the four saints featured on the sides panels - Benedict, John the Evangelist, Quentin, and Galgano - and, in the centre, two from the life of Bernard (see also PA157). Bernard sits surrounded by a number of his monks. He greets his five brothers standing before him, from the left Nivard, Bartholomew, Andrew, Gerard, and Guy. Bernard holds the hand of Gerard, identified by the wound in his side which he received when still a soldier.