| Bernard? Panel, oil on oak, painted c 1500 and depicting a figure in eucharistic vestments preaching from a raised wooden pulpit in the open. On the right a group of sitting lay people, men and women, are listening to him attentively. On the left three donors, identified by their coats of arms, are kneeling, one of them the same as the donor of a stained glass window in the nunnery of St Apern, Cologne (see Paffrath 1984, 222). Landscape of the Rhine valley in the background. The figure has been identified as Bernard, but the absence of any of the usual attributes makes this uncertain. If correct, the scene is said to show Bernard preaching the Crusade in Cologne (10-13 January 1147). Bernard has 'tuft'.
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