Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Virgin Appearing to Saint Bernard
Image View:
Detail, angel by the side of the Virgin
Creator:
Filippino Lippi (Italian painter, ca.1457-1504)
Location:
repository: Badia Fiorentina (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Church of Badìa Fiorentina
GPS:
43.770433 11.257717
Date:
ca. 1485-1487 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
210 cm (height) x 195 cm (width)
Subjects:
landscape; saints; Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint; Cistercians; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Description:
Filippino painted one of his most renowned works, the Virgin Appearing to St. Bernard, for the family chapel of Piero del Pugliese in the monastery church of Le Campora at Marignolle near Florence. Pugliese appears at the lower right, near Bernard, who sits outdoors at a writing desk. Touching her breast with one hand and the page with the other, the Virgin enlivens Bernard’s text with the milk of wisdom. For the image of Bernard, Filippino looked to Botticelli’s St Augustine (Florence, Ognissanti). Filippino learnt from Hugo van der Goes’s Portinari Altarpiece, which entered Florence in May 1483, how to describe seasonal changes in nature and how to populate a hillside with anecdotal information. His landscape backgrounds were also influenced by Antonio del Pollaiuolo and by Hans Memling’s Virgin and Child with Angels (Florence, Uffizi). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-LIPPI-AVSB-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Virgin Appearing to Saint Bernard