MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC37.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C/4
Reference No
Size	139 high
Provenance	La Cambre Cistercian Nuns' Abbey, Brussels - west front of Church
Present Location	La Cambre, Brussels - cloister in the lavatorium niche
Bibliography	Borchgrave d'Altena 1936, 226-9

Illustration From	photo - Thomas Coomans
Other illustrations	Borchgrave d'Altena 1936, ill 3

Country	Belgium

Description:
Stone carving from the second half of the fourteenth century of a bearded Bernard with a book in his left hand while the right hand, in which there almost certainly would have been a crozier, has been broken off. It is now in the lavatorium niche in the cloister, but was formerly in one of three niches on the west front of the Church, the others having carvings of St Mary Magdalene and St John Evangelist (?). Copies of the three figures are now in the original position.

Description:

Stone carving from the second half of the fourteenth century of a bearded Bernard with a book in his left hand while the right hand, in which there almost certainly would have been a crozier, has been broken off. It is now in the lavatorium niche in the cloister, but was formerly in one of three niches on the west front of the Church, the others having carvings of St Mary Magdalene and St John Evangelist (?). Copies of the three figures are now in the original position.