| The north, east and south cloister galleries at Cadouin were rebuilt in two phases under Abbot Peter de Gaing (1455-75) and his nephew of the same name (1475-1504) and at the same time they were embellished with numerous carvings, one of them representing the earlier of the two abbots identified by the arms at his feet. The same sculptors who had worked on the cloister of Cahors Cathedral were responsible for these. Near this carving in the north walk which was completed in 1468 is another carving of a monk holding a staff, the top of which has been broken off but which was probably a crozier and is therefore likely to represent St Bernard. He holds a long chain at the end of which stands a horned devil of approximately the same height as Bernard, a familiar theme in the late medieval Bernardine iconography.
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