MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA08.jpg


Category	Wall Painting
Origin: artist/workshop	Starmina
Date	15C/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Florence, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine
Present Location	Florence, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine
Bibliography	Fremantle 1975, 291

Illustration From	photo - Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Fiorentino
Other illustrations	Fremantle 1975, ill 594

Country	Italy

Description:
Fragment of a fresco in the chapel of St Jerome, Santa Maria del Carmine, the decoration of which was completed in 1404 by Starmina, the most important of the adherents of Agnolo Gaddi. As there is also a painting of St Benedict in a black habit (illustrated inb Fremantle, ill 598), this figure of an abbot in a white cowl and with a crozier in the right hand and a book in the left may be taken to represent Bernard.

Description:

Fragment of a fresco in the chapel of St Jerome, Santa Maria del Carmine, the decoration of which was completed in 1404 by Starmina, the most important of the adherents of Agnolo Gaddi. As there is also a painting of St Benedict in a black habit (illustrated inb Fremantle, ill 598), this figure of an abbot in a white cowl and with a crozier in the right hand and a book in the left may be taken to represent Bernard.