MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL74.jpg


Category	Glass
Origin: artist/workshop	Master of Freiburg/Switzerland
Date	15C/3
Reference No
Size	69x52.3
Provenance	Fille-Dieu Nuns' Abbey, Ronmont
Present Location	Bern, Historical Museum
Bibliography	Paffrath 1990, 102

Illustration From	Paffrath 1990, 102
Other illustrations

Country	Switzerland

Description:
One of three panels dated c 1470 from the Swiss Nuns' Abbey of Fille-Dieu founded 1268/9. They represent St Benedict, St Scholastica on whose panel is the name of the donor (Duchess Yolanta of Savoy, who with her husband, Amadeus IX, visited Ronmont in 1469), and, in the centre, Bernard in a white cowl, a red book in his left hand and a crozier in his right hand which he is, unusually, holding by its sudarium.

Description:

One of three panels dated c 1470 from the Swiss Nuns' Abbey of Fille-Dieu founded 1268/9. They represent St Benedict, St Scholastica on whose panel is the name of the donor (Duchess Yolanta of Savoy, who with her husband, Amadeus IX, visited Ronmont in 1469), and, in the centre, Bernard in a white cowl, a red book in his left hand and a crozier in his right hand which he is, unusually, holding by its sudarium.