MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA16.jpg


Category	Embroidery
Origin: artist/workshop	Cologne or Netherlands
Date	15C/4
Reference No	Inv 152
Size	50x51
Provenance
Present Location	Frankfurt, Cathedral Treasury
Bibliography	Stolleis 1992, 121-3

Illustration From
Other illustrations	Stolleis 1992, ill 24

Country	Germany

Description:
One side of what was probably an embroidered processional banner from the end of the fifteenth century from Cologne or possibly the Netherlands, the other side representing the Magi. Gold and silk thread on linen. Bernard with a crozier leaning on his left shoulder and hands clasped in prayer kneels before the Virgin and Child. The Virgin bares her breast in a Lactation scene in a room with windows at the back through which the church at Clairvaux may be seen.

Description:

One side of what was probably an embroidered processional banner from the end of the fifteenth century from Cologne or possibly the Netherlands, the other side representing the Magi. Gold and silk thread on linen. Bernard with a crozier leaning on his left shoulder and hands clasped in prayer kneels before the Virgin and Child. The Virgin bares her breast in a Lactation scene in a room with windows at the back through which the church at Clairvaux may be seen.