MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - GL92.jpg

Category Glass
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance Florence, Church of Santo Spirito
Present Location Florence, Church of Santo Spirito
Bibliography Florence 1990, 61

van Straelen 1938, 105
Illustration From Florence 1990, ill 34
Other illustrations

Country Italy
Description:
Glass in the Florentine church of Santo Spirito from the end of the fifteenth century. Bernard is kneeling in front of a desk on which is an open book in which he has been writing with the pen in his right hand. He is looking up at the Virgin and child appearing in the sky surrounded by five angels. Bernard has 'tuft'.