MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC30.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop	Middle Rhine Master
Date	16C/1
Reference No
Size	75 high
Provenance	not known, but possibly Cistercian Nuns' Abbey in Mainz
Present Location	Bretzenheim, Church of St Bernard
Bibliography	Mainz 1998, 246

Illustration From	Mainz 1998, 247 (Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag)
Other illustrations

Country	Germany

Description:
Polychrome wooden statue from a Middle Rhine workshop dated c 1520. Bernard in a white cowl has a crozier with attached golden sudarium in his right hand and an open book, red with decorative golden studs, in his left hand. The cowl has a red border inscribed with words in gold: SANCTUS BERNHARDUS ORA PRO NO(BIS AD) DEUS. The proximity of the church in which it is now to the former Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Dalheim suggests that it may have come from there or alternatively one of the other Cistercian nunneries in Mainz. Bernard has 'tuft'.

Description:

Polychrome wooden statue from a Middle Rhine workshop dated c 1520. Bernard in a white cowl has a crozier with attached golden sudarium in his right hand and an open book, red with decorative golden studs, in his left hand. The cowl has a red border inscribed with words in gold: SANCTUS BERNHARDUS ORA PRO NO(BIS AD) DEUS. The proximity of the church in which it is now to the former Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Dalheim suggests that it may have come from there or alternatively one of the other Cistercian nunneries in Mainz. Bernard has 'tuft'.