MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC15.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C/1
Reference No
Size	135x87
Provenance	Doberan Cistercian Abbey
Present Location	Doberan, choir stalls
Bibliography	Fruendt 1987, 22; Erdmann 1995, 38 & 54
	France 1998, 6; Aurenhammer 1959-67, 333
Illustration From	France 1998, ill 6
Other illustrations	photo - JF

Country	Germany

Description:
Carving of Bernard together with St Benedict looking like twins at the end of the rows of the oak choir stalls dated c 1310 in the abbey church of Doberan in Mecklenburg. Both are nimbed, both carry croziers and books, and being carved in natural wood it is not possible to distinguish the colour of their habits, usually the only way of telling them apart, and it is not possible to tell them apart.

Description:

Carving of Bernard together with St Benedict looking like twins at the end of the rows of the oak choir stalls dated c 1310 in the abbey church of Doberan in Mecklenburg. Both are nimbed, both carry croziers and books, and being carved in natural wood it is not possible to distinguish the colour of their habits, usually the only way of telling them apart, and it is not possible to tell them apart.