MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - PA159.jpg

Category Painting
Origin: artist/workshop Simone dei Crocifissi
Date 14C/3
Reference No Inv No 166
Size
Provenance
Present Location Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale
Bibliography Kaftal 1978, 145

Vavala 1930, 1-49
Illustration From Dante 1965, 497
Other illustrations Kaftal 1978, ill 188; Vavala 1930, ill42

Country Italy
Description:
In a painting by Simone dei Crucifissi from the third quarter of the fourteenth century Bernard is shown with a long beard and wearing a red cope over his white cowl handing an open book - a rule - to a group of men and women kneeling before him. He is accompanied by a group of his monks, one of whom is carrying his crozier. Below is the inscription 's. bernardus'.