MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC41.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop	Reinard Fonnell
Date	14C/2
Reference No
Size	70x50
Provenance	Montblanch, Church of St Mary
Present Location	Montblanch, Church of St Mary
Bibliography	Duran 1953, 43-4; Dewez & Iterson 1956, 174
	Aurenhammer 1959-67, 337-8 & 339; Dupeux 1993, 155-6
Illustration From	photo - JF
Other illustrations	Duran 1953, ill 12 & 13

Country	Spain

Description:
One of four scenes from the life of Bernard from the carved stone altarpiece from 1348 in the Church of St Mary in Montblanch dedicated to St Barnabas and St Bernard featuring four scenes of each flanking the two carved standing figures of the two saints. Below on the left is a Lactation scene. On the left the Virgin and Child placed on a corbel, indicating that it represents a statue, on the right a kneeling Bernard with two monks. The heads of all the figures are missing. The scene is blessed by the hand of God above against circular gold background.By the English sculptor Reinard Fonnell who also did the carvings in the cloister of the Cistercian Santes Creus. See also SC39-40 and SC42-3.

Description:

One of four scenes from the life of Bernard from the carved stone altarpiece from 1348 in the Church of St Mary in Montblanch dedicated to St Barnabas and St Bernard featuring four scenes of each flanking the two carved standing figures of the two saints. Below on the left is a Lactation scene. On the left the Virgin and Child placed on a corbel, indicating that it represents a statue, on the right a kneeling Bernard with two monks. The heads of all the figures are missing. The scene is blessed by the hand of God above against circular gold background.By the English sculptor Reinard Fonnell who also did the carvings in the cloister of the Cistercian Santes Creus. See also SC39-40 and SC42-3.