MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA02.jpg

Category Various
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 13C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance Casamari Cistercian Abbey
Present Location Veroli (Frosinone), Cathedral
Bibliography Florence 1990, 94

Dal Pra 1990, 347
Illustration From Florence 1990, 94 (detail) - whole plate, 95
Other illustrations

Country Italy
Description:
A tiny bust of Bernard is one of many saints on a silver-gilt reliquary from the Cistercian abbey of Casamari dated the end of the thirteenth century. He is bearded and nimbed and his name 'BERNARDUS' is inscribed above the bust.