MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL87.jpg

Category Glass
Origin: artist/workshop ? Conrad Wirz, Erlenbach, Zuerich
Date 16C/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance Kappel Cistercian Abbey
Present Location private ownership
Bibliography Anderes & Hoegger 1989, 281; Hoegger 2002

Illustration From Anderes & Hoegger 1989, 281
Other illustrations

Country Switzerland
Description:
A small panel from the Cistercian Abbey of Kappel dated c 1520 with the heraldic devices of Clairvaux, Kappel, and Abbot Wolfgang Joner surmounted by a mitre and crozier and flanked by the two figures of St Benedict and Bernard, perhaps the older looking on the right carrying a book being Benedict.