MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA26.jpg

Category Fresco
Origin: artist/workshop
Date 15C/4
Reference No
Size
Provenance Chiarano d'Arco (Trento), Church of St Anthony Abbot
Present Location Chiarano d'Arco (Trento), Church of St Anthony Abbot
Bibliography Florence 1990, 74

Illustration From Florence 1990, ill 40
Other illustrations

Country Italy
Description:
Fresco of an 'imago pietatis' painted 1481 in the church of St Anthony Abbot in Chiarano d'Arco (Trento). The half figure of the dead Christ surrounded by the 'arma Christi' is flanked by Bernard on the left and St Bernardino of Siena on the right. Bernard is bearded, has his hood over his head, and is carrying a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right.