MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC33.jpg

Category Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C
Reference No
Size 57 high
Provenance Cistercian Nuns Abbey d'Hastimoulin, Namur
Present Location Namur, Musee regional d'Art et d'Histoire
Bibliography

Illustration From photo - IRPA-KIK, Brussels
Other illustrations Toussaint 1998, 252

Country Belgium
Description:
A fifteenth-century polychrome version of the Lactation sculpted in oak in two parts - Bernard kneeling and facing a seated Virgin, who bares her breast and squeezes it with her right hand, with naked Child. The head of the Child is missing. Bernard has 'tuft'.