MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - WA46.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 Jakobs & France 2005, 59-60

Illustration From photo - Landesamt fuer Denkmalpflege (Felix Pilz)
Other illustrations Jakobs & France 2005, ill 70

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. Bernard stands in a high Gothic pulpit preaching to a number of lay people whom he is pointing to in a teaching mode. See also WA39-45 and WA47-49.