MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - VA23.jpg

Category Seal
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C/3
Reference No RAperg 1477 3/2
Size 5.8x4.0
Provenance Alvastra Cistercian Abbey
Present Location Stockholm, State Archives
Bibliography Hallberg, Norberg & Odenius 1965, 100

Illustration From Hallberg, Norberg & Odenius 1965, ill 40 (photo - B A Lundberg)
Other illustrations

Country Sweden
Description:
Bernard? The standing figure of a nimbed abbot with crozier in left hand and book in right hand on the seal impression of Abbot Andreas of Alvastra used 3/2 1477 may represent Bernard. The matrix found in the abbey ruins is dated c 1460 and is now in Stockholm, Statens Historiska Museum (Inv. No 21530:1-2).