MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA20.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 Kaftal 1985, 153-6; Florence 1990, 43-4

Illustration From Kaftal 1985, ill 220
Other illustrations

Country Italy
Description:
One of nine frescos depicting scenes from the life of Bernard from 1482 at the Chapel of St Bernard, Pamparato. Bernard shows a monk a chain with the ten commandments, an episode that does not correspond to any of the literary sources. Bernard has a 'tuft'. See also WA12-19.