MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA021.jpg


Category	Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of the Life of Mary, Cologne
Date	15C/3
Reference No	WRM 128
Size	30x24
Provenance
Present Location	Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum
Bibliography	Paffrath 1990, 54; Stange 1967-70, No 178; Dijon 1953, 56; Schmidt 1978, 46-9 & 176-7; Schmitt 1990, 159
	Wallraf-Richartz 1986, 59-60; Zehnder 1990, 471-4; Dewez & Iterson 1956, 176-7; Schmitt 1992, 654; Steffen 1921, 97-9; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 339
Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 54
Other illustrations	Wallraf-Richartz 1986, ill 277; Reau 1955-9, ill 11; Dupeux 1991, ill 7; Schmidt 1978, ill 7
	Stange 1951-61, 5: ill 72; Huempfner 1927, 1: 28; Zehnder 1990, ill 286; Paris 1991, ill 20; Eberbach 2003, 29
Country	Germany

Description:
The half-figures of the the Virgin and Bernard, depicted in the same scale, sitting behind a low wall on which the naked Child is seated on an ornate cushion. Bernard has his gaze on the Child on whose legs his right hand is placed. He holds a red book in his left. Mary is presenting the Child with a carnation in her left hand while she is pressing her bared breast with her right hand in a Lactation scene. Bernard is identified by his name on the golden halo but is not carrying a crozier, and the usual Lactation scroll 'Monstra te esse matrem' is also missing. The background shows a landscape with a golden sky. Painted 1470-75 by the most important painter working in Cologne at the time. Bernard is very like the donor Nikolaus von Kues who is depicted kneeling in the Passion Triptych by the 'Meister des Marienlebens'. Oil on oak.

Description:

The half-figures of the the Virgin and Bernard, depicted in the same scale, sitting behind a low wall on which the naked Child is seated on an ornate cushion. Bernard has his gaze on the Child on whose legs his right hand is placed. He holds a red book in his left. Mary is presenting the Child with a carnation in her left hand while she is pressing her bared breast with her right hand in a Lactation scene. Bernard is identified by his name on the golden halo but is not carrying a crozier, and the usual Lactation scroll 'Monstra te esse matrem' is also missing. The background shows a landscape with a golden sky. Painted 1470-75 by the most important painter working in Cologne at the time. Bernard is very like the donor Nikolaus von Kues who is depicted kneeling in the Passion Triptych by the 'Meister des Marienlebens'. Oil on oak.