MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA28.jpg


Category	Fresco
Origin: artist/workshop	Pietro Perugino (c 1450-1523)
Date	15C/4
Reference No
Size	480x812
Provenance	Florence, Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, Chapter House
Present Location	Florence, Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, Chapter House
Bibliography	Paffrath 1990, 49; Florence 1990, 74; Iconografia di San Benedetto 1982, 276
	Luchs 1977, 109-10; Paatz 1940-54, 4:100; Ricci 1931, 98; Gariboldi 1999, 118
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 49
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, ill 42; Iconografia di San Benedetto, ill 166
	Luchs 1977, ill 81; Ricci 1931, 96
Country	Italy

Description:
Crucifixion scene painted by Pietro Perugino in 1496 for the Chapter House of the Cistercian Abbey of Cestello (to-day S Maria Maddalena). The central of the three arches has the Crucifixion itself with St Mary Magdalen kneeling at the foot of the Cross. On the right St Johm Evangelist stands with St Benedict kneeling, and on the left the Virgin stands and Bernard kneels. The scene is in a green wooded landscape with hills. This was the source for Perugino's Amplexus fresco in the same abbey (see WA22).

Description:

Crucifixion scene painted by Pietro Perugino in 1496 for the Chapter House of the Cistercian Abbey of Cestello (to-day S Maria Maddalena). The central of the three arches has the Crucifixion itself with St Mary Magdalen kneeling at the foot of the Cross. On the right St Johm Evangelist stands with St Benedict kneeling, and on the left the Virgin stands and Bernard kneels. The scene is in a green wooded landscape with hills. This was the source for Perugino's Amplexus fresco in the same abbey (see WA22).