MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA44.jpg


Category	Wall Painting
Origin: artist/workshop
Date	15c/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance	Owen, St Bernard Chapel
Present Location	Owen, St Bernard Chapel
Bibliography	VP1:6:30 (PL185:244-5); LA 214 Jakobs & France 2005, 54-6

Illustration From	photo - Landesamt fuer Denkmalpflege (Felix Pilz)
Other illustrations	Jakobs & France 2005, ill 63

Country	Germany

Description:
One of twelve early fifteenth-century images from the life of Bernard in the chapel dedicated to him at Owen in Wuerttemberg, of which fragments of eleven remain. Depicts the story of Humbeline's visit to Clairvaux. She is seen in her finery riding and accompanied by a male rider and another woman. The nimbed figure on top of a castellated building is Bernard who had at first refused to see his sister. See also WA39-WA43 & WA45-WA49.

Description:

One of twelve early fifteenth-century images from the life of Bernard in the chapel dedicated to him at Owen in Wuerttemberg, of which fragments of eleven remain. Depicts the story of Humbeline's visit to Clairvaux. She is seen in her finery riding and accompanied by a male rider and another woman. The nimbed figure on top of a castellated building is Bernard who had at first refused to see his sister. See also WA39-WA43 & WA45-WA49.