MEDIEVAL IMAGES OF SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX - EN88.jpg

Category Woodcut
Origin
Date 16C/1
Reference No
Size
Provenance
Present Location Paris, Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs
Bibliography VP 2: 4: 21-2 (PL 185: 280-1); LA 217.

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Country France
Description
Woodcut illustration from 'La Vies des Saints' based on the Vita Prima Bernardi and published 1506. Bernard is shown exorcising a possessed woman kneeling before him with a bat-like devil coming out of her mouth. The scene is witnessed by a number of people who in the account are said to have restrained her. See also EN 29, PA 110, & WA 17.