MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA175.jpg

Category Painting
Origin: artist/workshop Follower of P Nicolau
Date 15C/1
Reference No Inv. 39.54
Size central panel 171.5x55.9, side panels 172.4x51.1
Provenance Charterhouse of Valdecristo
Present Location New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund
Bibliography

Illustration From photo - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other illustrations Duran 1953, ill 21

Country Spain
Description:
Detail of altarpiece of All Saints painted in 1414-20. On the left St Hugh of Lincoln in the Carthusian habit, wearing a mitre and holding a crozier and a book; in the centre Bernard in a white cowl with crozier in his right hand and a book in his left; on the right St Dominic holding a book in his right hand and a lily in his left. All three are nimbed. Bernard has 'tuft'.