MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA06.jpg


Category	Engraving
Origin: artist/workshop	Urs Graf the Elder
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	7.8x17.1
Provenance	St Urban Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	London, British Museum
Bibliography	VP2:4:21-2 (PL185:280-1); VP1:7:58 (PL185:258-9): LA 217; Paffrath 1984, 401
	Hollstein 1977, 11:7; Thieme & Willis 1921, 14:486-8
Illustration From	Paffrath 1984, 287
Other illustrations	Hollstein 1977, 11:ill 33

Country	Switzerland

Description:
One of the six double silver panels from Urs Graf's bust-reliquary from St Urban dated 1519. On the right Bernard holds out his left hand in blessing a possessed woman who is being held by two men. The devil in the form of a flying creature with a long wavy tail is cast out and flies away above the woman. The inscription reads: DEMONA PROCACEM REPVLIT DE VETVLV SANCT' ('With great force the saint expels demons from the old woman'). On the left Bernard lies on his sickbed with the Virgin, St Lawrence and St Benedict appearing. The inscription: FEBRIB' EXCOCT' BERNARD' NVMINA SENSIT ('Overcome by fever Bernard felt the presence of the saints'). (See also VA04-05, and VA07-11).

Description:

One of the six double silver panels from Urs Graf's bust-reliquary from St Urban dated 1519. On the right Bernard holds out his left hand in blessing a possessed woman who is being held by two men. The devil in the form of a flying creature with a long wavy tail is cast out and flies away above the woman. The inscription reads: DEMONA PROCACEM REPVLIT DE VETVLV SANCT' ('With great force the saint expels demons from the old woman'). On the left Bernard lies on his sickbed with the Virgin, St Lawrence and St Benedict appearing. The inscription: FEBRIB' EXCOCT' BERNARD' NVMINA SENSIT ('Overcome by fever Bernard felt the presence of the saints'). (See also VA04-05, and VA07-11).