MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA03.jpg

Category Embroidery
Origin: artist/workshop Flemish School on Florentine Cloth
Date 15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance
Present Location London, Victoria & Albert Museum
Bibliography Florence 1990, 136

Eirwen Jones 1969, 126
Illustration From Florence 1990, 137
Other illustrations Eirwen Jones 1969, ill 63

Country Belgium
Description:
Three embroideries on the back of a late fifteenth-century Flemish cope. At the top the Veronica, in the centre a nimbed Bernard with a crozier under his left arm kneels before the Virgin and Child seated on a bench, and below an Amplexus scene with Bernard's crozier lying on the ground.