MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC31.jpg

Category Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop Swabia?
Date 15C/2
Reference No
Size c 80 high
Provenance Seligenthal Cistercian Nuns' Abbey
Present Location Seligenthal Nuns' Choir
Bibliography Aachen 1981, 547-8

Illustration From Aachen 1981, 547
Other illustrations

Country Germany
Description:
Now part of an early Barock altarpiece at Seligenthal this carved and painted wooden figure of Bernard from the second quarter of the fifteenth century is matched by a similar figure of St Benedict but of a somewhat different style and not by the same sculptor. The crozier is not original.