MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA189.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	attributed to Ludovico Brea from Nice
Date	15C/4
Reference No
Size	150x59
Provenance	southern France
Present Location	Vercelli, Museo Borgogna
Bibliography	Viale 1969, 26-7
	Berenson 1932, 112
Illustration From	Viale 1969, ill 15 (ill 17 has detail of Bernard)
Other illustrations	Duchet-Suchaux 1993, 49

Country	France

Description:
Painting attributed by Berenson to Ludovico Brea from Nice from c 1470-80. One of two diptychs showing a bearded Bernard in a white cowl and holding a gold crozier in his left hand and an open red book in his right hand on the right under a Gothic arch. On the left and separated by a gold column is the bearded figure of St Jerome in a red tunic with a black cloak over and a red cardinal's hat. The other diptych has St Louis of France and St Catherine.

Description:

Painting attributed by Berenson to Ludovico Brea from Nice from c 1470-80. One of two diptychs showing a bearded Bernard in a white cowl and holding a gold crozier in his left hand and an open red book in his right hand on the right under a Gothic arch. On the left and separated by a gold column is the bearded figure of St Jerome in a red tunic with a black cloak over and a red cardinal's hat. The other diptych has St Louis of France and St Catherine.