Видение Рождества св. Бригитте {4162}
St Birgitta's vision of the Nativity
- автор:
- Турино Ванни
- Turino Vanni
- место:
- Пиза
- Pisa
- перемещени:
- монастырь св. Доминика ( - )
- convent of San Domenico
Нац. музей св. Матфея
- Museo Nazionale di San Matteo
- композиция:
- The painting shows the scene as Birgitta described it in Revelationes VII, with the Virgin taking off Her shoes and blue robe [in Birgitta's text this is white], and veil, giving birth in merely her white shift, having brought with her two lengths of white linen, lying beside her and the Child, in which to wrap him.
- She addresses the Child: "Bene veneris, Deus meus, Dominus meus et filius meus!" ['Welcome, my God, my Lord and my Son'].
- The painting from San Domenico faithfully depicts the Birgitta's picturesque details in the context of an otherwise conventional nativity scene, which includes such standard features as the ox and ass, music-making angels and the annunciation to the shepherds in the distance. The mountainous setting refers to the grotto where the vision took place. This mountain formation has three alcoves in which the figures are placed, with the Virgin and Child in the largest opening at the center, Joseph in a separate alcove on the right, and Birgitta herself in an alcove on the left. [This arrangement recalls the cave at Bethelehem, adjoined by the further caves of Jerome and Holy Paula and Eustochium.] In a mandorla above the scene appears God the Father, from whom rays of light descend on Christ, the Virgin, Saint Joseph, and Birgitta herself. Birgitta is thus a partner in this event, equal at least to St Joseph; in fact, her position at the left of the composition makes her more prominent than Saint Joseph.
- оформление:
- The painting had already been executed before the predellas {4161}.
- предмет с изображением:
