MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA14.jpg


Category	Casket (reliquary)
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	14C/1
Reference No
Size	9.6x16.6(x11.6 wide)
Provenance	Lichtental Cistercian Nuns' Abbey
Present Location	New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library
Bibliography	Guth-Dreyfus 1954, 117

Illustration From	Guth-Dreyfus 1954, ill 22
Other illustrations

Country	Germany

Description:
Reliquary from the Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Lichtental. Engraved silver gilt decorated with enamel plates.The side has six trefoiled canopies, the four central ones with the crowned Virgin and Child and the Three Kings, on the left the kneeling donor nun, Margaret of Speyer, and on the right the standing figure of a youthful-looking nimbed Bernard with a crozier in his right hand and his name inscribed above.

Description:

Reliquary from the Cistercian Nuns' Abbey of Lichtental. Engraved silver gilt decorated with enamel plates.The side has six trefoiled canopies, the four central ones with the crowned Virgin and Child and the Three Kings, on the left the kneeling donor nun, Margaret of Speyer, and on the right the standing figure of a youthful-looking nimbed Bernard with a crozier in his right hand and his name inscribed above.