MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC13.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	129x42
Provenance	Loegum Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Loegum, abbey church
Bibliography

Illustration From	photo - JF
Other illustrations

Country	Denmark

Description:
Bernard? An early sixteenth-century statue carved in oak and painted, face and hands flesh-coloured, the cowl and cap black. Placed on a plinth with a back and canopy above in natural oak. The figure has previously held a crozier in the right hand and a book in the left. Its position in a Cistercian church makes it very likely that it represents Bernard who, in the late Middle Ages, was frequently depicted in a black cowl. It may, however, equally well represent St Benedict.

Description:

Bernard? An early sixteenth-century statue carved in oak and painted, face and hands flesh-coloured, the cowl and cap black. Placed on a plinth with a back and canopy above in natural oak. The figure has previously held a crozier in the right hand and a book in the left. Its position in a Cistercian church makes it very likely that it represents Bernard who, in the late Middle Ages, was frequently depicted in a black cowl. It may, however, equally well represent St Benedict.