MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA157.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	VP3:6:18 (PL185:313-4); Paffrath 1990, 40; Dal Pra 1990, 354-5; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 338
	Florence 1990, 106; Kaftal 1952, 177-8; Clark 1981-2, 175-87; Berenson 1963, 1:143; Fremantle 1975, 201
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 40
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, 107; Berenson 1963, 1:ill 284
	Kaftal 1952, ill 191; Fremantle 1975, ill 403; Martin 1925, 36
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 side panels - Benedict, John the Evangelist, Quentin, and Galgano - and, in the centre, two from the life of Bernard (see also PA158). Bernard is shown on a high pulpit preaching against heresy at Sarlat. To convince the people he blesses a loaf and promises that whoever eats of it, even without faith, will be cured of any ill. Beside him in the pulpit is the bishop of Chartres, and sitting behind him are two more bishops and a monk.

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 side panels - Benedict, John the Evangelist, Quentin, and Galgano - and, in the centre, two from the life of Bernard (see also PA158). Bernard is shown on a high pulpit preaching against heresy at Sarlat. To convince the people he blesses a loaf and promises that whoever eats of it, even without faith, will be cured of any ill. Beside him in the pulpit is the bishop of Chartres, and sitting behind him are two more bishops and a monk.