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Title:
Lactation of St. Bernard
Creator:
Master IAM of Zwolle, engraver
Description:
According to a 14th-century legend, Bernard prayed before a status of the madonna lactans. As he spoke "monstra te esse matrem" [Show yourselves to be a mother], the statue suddenly came to life. The Virgin placed her breast into Bernard's mouth and nursed him as she did the Christ Child. In many cases this tale was illustrated with Bernard and the Virgin standing at a distance from one another as the Virgin squeezes milk from her breast that shoots into Bernard's mouth. Here Bernard receives the breast milk on his forehead as he kneels before an enthroned Virgin and Child within a busy and populated church. In the background a woman stands with a prayerbook and a man reads a book on what appears to be an altar.
Source:
Wikimedia Commons
Rights:
Public Domain
Subject
(See Also)
:
Architecture- Religious
Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint
Breast Feeding
Devotional Practices
Mary, Virgin, Saint and Child
Geographic Area:
Germany
Century:
15
Date:
ca. 1470-1485
Related Work:
Current Location:
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, inv. no. RP-P-OB-1093 (Hollstein Dutch 15)
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category):
Digital images; Prints
Artistic Type (Material/Technique):
Engravings
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm):
32 cm/24.1 cm/
Inscription:
From Bernard:
Monstra te e[ss]e matrem (si)
[Show yourself to be a mother]; On base of Vigin's pedestal:
Ave regina celorum mater regis
[Hail, Queen of Heaven, mother of the king]; From the Virgin:
Ecce Berde
[Behold, Bernard]
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