MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA05.jpg


Category	Engraving
Origin: artist/workshop	Urs Graf the Elder
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	8.0x17.0
Provenance	St Urban Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	London, British Museum
Bibliography	VP4:5:31 & 6:4:15 (PL185:338-9 & 381-2); Paffrath 1984, 401; Hollstein 1977, 11:7
	Thieme & willis 1921, 14:486-8
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, ill 285
Other illustrations	Hollstein 1977, 11:32

Country	Switzerland

Description:
Although this is one of the six double silver panels from Urs Graf's bust-reliquary dated 1519, it only portrays one scene: that of Bernard kneeling before an image of the Virgin in Speyer Cathedral which comes alive before him and is witnessed by the king. The inscription reads: EN XPI EFFIGIES IN SPIRA HVNC EXCIPIT AVENS. O CLEMENS O PIA O DVLCIS MARIA ('Behold the image of Christ in Speyer Cathedral greeting her with O clement, O holy, O sweet Mary'). Signed with the monogram and dagger. (See also VA04, and VA06-11).

Description:

Although this is one of the six double silver panels from Urs Graf's bust-reliquary dated 1519, it only portrays one scene: that of Bernard kneeling before an image of the Virgin in Speyer Cathedral which comes alive before him and is witnessed by the king. The inscription reads: EN XPI EFFIGIES IN SPIRA HVNC EXCIPIT AVENS. O CLEMENS O PIA O DVLCIS MARIA ('Behold the image of Christ in Speyer Cathedral greeting her with O clement, O holy, O sweet Mary'). Signed with the monogram and dagger. (See also VA04, and VA06-11).