MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA163.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Giovanni di Paolo (c 1399-1482)
Date	15C/3
Reference No
Size	200x48.5 (panel with Bernard)
Provenance	Cistercian Abbey of San Galgano
Present Location	Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale
Bibliography	Torriti 1977, 332-5
	Berenson 1968, 1:180
Illustration From	photo - Soprintendenza PSAD Siena & Grosseto
Other illustrations	Torriti 1977, 332 (all four saints)

Country	Italy

Description:
The central panel of the altarpiece painted by Giovanni di Paolo c 1470 which would have represented the Virgin is no longer, but the side panels, with the figures of four standing saints and the predella which includes a scene of the Vision of Bernard (see PA160), have been preserved. On the left Sts Benedict and Mary Magdalen, on the right Galgano and Bernard. Bernard has the hood of his white cowl over his head, a crozier in his right hand and an open book in his left.

Description:

The central panel of the altarpiece painted by Giovanni di Paolo c 1470 which would have represented the Virgin is no longer, but the side panels, with the figures of four standing saints and the predella which includes a scene of the Vision of Bernard (see PA160), have been preserved. On the left Sts Benedict and Mary Magdalen, on the right Galgano and Bernard. Bernard has the hood of his white cowl over his head, a crozier in his right hand and an open book in his left.