MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC43.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop	Reinard Fonnell
Date	14C/2
Reference No
Size	73 cm high
Provenance	Montblanch, Church of St Mary
Present Location	Montblanch, Church of St Mary
Bibliography	Aurenhammer 1959-67, 335 & 337-8

Illustration From	photo - JF
Other illustrations	Duran 1953, ill 12

Country	Spain

Description:
Carved stone altarpiece from 1348 in the Church of St Mary in Montblanch. The alatrpiece is dedicated to St Barnabas and St Bernard with four scenes from the life of each saint and the carved standing figures of the two saints in the centre. On the left is Bernard, nimbed and bearded and with a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left. By the English sculptor who did the carvings in the Cistercian cloister at Santes Creus. See also SC39-42.

Description:

Carved stone altarpiece from 1348 in the Church of St Mary in Montblanch. The alatrpiece is dedicated to St Barnabas and St Bernard with four scenes from the life of each saint and the carved standing figures of the two saints in the centre. On the left is Bernard, nimbed and bearded and with a crozier in his right hand and a book in his left. By the English sculptor who did the carvings in the Cistercian cloister at Santes Creus. See also SC39-42.