MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA05.jpg


Category	Fresco
Origin: artist/workshop	Orvietan School
Date	14C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Orvieto, Church of St Giovenale
Present Location	Orvieto, Church of St Giovenale
Bibliography	van Marle 1923-4, 305-25
	van Marle 1925, 5:118
Illustration From	van Marle 1923-4, ill 26
Other illustrations

Country	Italy

Description:
Bernard? Fresco of half-figures of four saints painted at the end of the fourteenth century in the second niche on the left in the church of St Giovenale, Orvieto. From left a saint with a long beard and in a white cowl with a book in the left hand and a rosary in the right (St Benedict or Bernard), John the Baptist holding a dish enclosing the Lamb of God and an inscription with John 1:29, a mitred bishop-saint with a crozier, and Lawrence in a dalmatic and carrying the gridiron.

Description:

Bernard? Fresco of half-figures of four saints painted at the end of the fourteenth century in the second niche on the left in the church of St Giovenale, Orvieto. From left a saint with a long beard and in a white cowl with a book in the left hand and a rosary in the right (St Benedict or Bernard), John the Baptist holding a dish enclosing the Lamb of God and an inscription with John 1:29, a mitred bishop-saint with a crozier, and Lawrence in a dalmatic and carrying the gridiron.