MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA13.jpg


Category	Fresco
Origin: artist/workshop	Piedmontese School
Date	15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Pamparato (Cuneo), Chapel of St Bernard
Present Location	Pamparato (Cuneo), Chapel of St Bernard
Bibliography	EM2:15 (Griesser 1961, 109); Dal Pra 1991, 22-3; Dal Pra 1990, 355-6
	Kaftal 1985, 153-6; Florence 1990, 43-4
Illustration From	Dal Pra 1991, ill 12
Other illustrations	Kaftal 1985, ill 216

Country	Italy

Description:
One of nine frescos depicting scenes from the life of Bernard from 1482 at the Chapel of St Bernard, Pamparato. Bernard is depicted with the kneeling prisoner who had been condemned to death and whom he now liberates. According to the Exordium Magnum, he changed 'the wolf into a lamb, and the thief into a lay brother'. The inscription reads: QUANDO SUO DEVOTO DE LA PERSONE CHI DEVIA ABERE TAGLIATA LA TESTA.Bernard has 'tuft'. See also WA12 & WA14-20.

Description:

One of nine frescos depicting scenes from the life of Bernard from 1482 at the Chapel of St Bernard, Pamparato. Bernard is depicted with the kneeling prisoner who had been condemned to death and whom he now liberates. According to the Exordium Magnum, he changed 'the wolf into a lamb, and the thief into a lay brother'. The inscription reads: QUANDO SUO DEVOTO DE LA PERSONE CHI DEVIA ABERE TAGLIATA LA TESTA.Bernard has 'tuft'. See also WA12 & WA14-20.