MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC04.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop	Burgundy
Date	14C/4
Reference No
Size	80 high
Provenance	Clairvaux Cistercian abbey, tomb of Bernard?
Present Location	Bar sur Aube, Mediatheque Municipale
Bibliography	Paris 1990, 274
	France 1998, 43; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 333
Illustration From	France 1998, ill 25
Other illustrations	Paris 1990, 274
	Leclercq 1966, 82; Quarre 1953, ill 7
Country	France

Description:
The most famous image of Bernard as a founder, first and foremost of Clairvaux, but subsequently as the initiator of a larger number of monasteries than perhaps any other single person before or since. The statue in sandstone with traces of polychrome has him carrying a model of a church, dressed in a cowl with his hood partially over his head. The right hand, in which he would have been carrying a crozier, is missing. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

The most famous image of Bernard as a founder, first and foremost of Clairvaux, but subsequently as the initiator of a larger number of monasteries than perhaps any other single person before or since. The statue in sandstone with traces of polychrome has him carrying a model of a church, dressed in a cowl with his hood partially over his head. The right hand, in which he would have been carrying a crozier, is missing. Bernard has 'tuft'.