MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC24.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/1
Reference No	Inv. C 15
Size	96.5 high
Provenance	Rhineland
Present Location	Liege, Musee d'Art Religieux et d'Art Mosan
Bibliography	Paris 1990, 281
	Huy 1990, 65
Illustration From	Paris 1990, ill 222
Other illustrations	Huy 1990, 65

Country	Germany

Description:
Sculpture carved in oak in the Rhineland (Aachen ?) around 1500. Bernard's asceticism is accentuated by the lean face and bony hands with veins showing. He holds a crozier, relatively simple in design for the late Middle Ages, in his right hand and an open book clasped to his body by his left hand. A chain is attached to a ring around his left wrist at the end of which is a small demon at his feet.

Description:

Sculpture carved in oak in the Rhineland (Aachen ?) around 1500. Bernard's asceticism is accentuated by the lean face and bony hands with veins showing. He holds a crozier, relatively simple in design for the late Middle Ages, in his right hand and an open book clasped to his body by his left hand. A chain is attached to a ring around his left wrist at the end of which is a small demon at his feet.