MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA29.jpg


Category	Fresco
Origin: artist/workshop	Umbria/Lazio School
Date	14C/1
Reference No
Size	205x287
Provenance	Palombara Sabina, Gulielmite Abbey of St John in Argentella
Present Location	Palombara Sabina, Gulielmite Abbey of St John in Argentella
Bibliography	VP2:6:37-8 (PL185:289-90); LA, 218-9; Dal Pra 1991, 1-5
	Florence 1990, 40; Dal Pra 1990, 350-1
Illustration From	Dal Pra 1991, ill 1
Other illustrations	Florence 1990, ill 15

Country	Italy

Description:
Fresco from the beginning of the fourteenth century showing the crowned Duke William of Aquitaine on horse accompanied by two horsemen with trumpets in front and a number of others behind. He is pointing to Bernard whom he is on his way to meet. It is part of a cycle of St William of Malevalla, founder of the Guilelmite Order of Hermits in one of whose churches this is. Bernard was considered to have been responsible for his conversion, but he was not the same as the Duke of Aquitaine who had originally opposed Innocent II in the papal schism until his conversion by Bernard. The identity of the two was commonly confused. See also WA30.

Description:

Fresco from the beginning of the fourteenth century showing the crowned Duke William of Aquitaine on horse accompanied by two horsemen with trumpets in front and a number of others behind. He is pointing to Bernard whom he is on his way to meet. It is part of a cycle of St William of Malevalla, founder of the Guilelmite Order of Hermits in one of whose churches this is. Bernard was considered to have been responsible for his conversion, but he was not the same as the Duke of Aquitaine who had originally opposed Innocent II in the papal schism until his conversion by Bernard. The identity of the two was commonly confused. See also WA30.