MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - SC44.jpg


Category	Sculpture
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	16C/2
Reference No
Size	100 high
Provenance	Niederwerth Cistercian Nuns' Abbey
Present Location	Niederwerth, sacristy of church
Bibliography	Kubach, Michel, & Schnitzler 1944, 259 ;posset 2003, 394
	Paffrath 1990, 203
Illustration From	Kubach, Michel, & Schnitzler 1944, ill 296
Other illustrations	posset 2003, 395

Country	Germany

Description:
Painted wood relief with half round top 1 m high from the second quarter of the sixteenth century. The scene takes place in a church, half Gothic and half Renaissance. Christ has two arms detached from the Cross which is placed on an altar. He stretches these out towards Bernard standing below with arms outstretched. There are two monks in the background. The painting is not original. See also GL89 & SC28

Description:

Painted wood relief with half round top 1 m high from the second quarter of the sixteenth century. The scene takes place in a church, half Gothic and half Renaissance. Christ has two arms detached from the Cross which is placed on an altar. He stretches these out towards Bernard standing below with arms outstretched. There are two monks in the background. The painting is not original. See also GL89 & SC28