Virgin and Child
from Virgin and Child and St Benedict
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales | about 1920-1928 Two roundels.technique: stained glass size: 25 cm (diameter of each panel) [approx] artist: Theodore Baily Caldey Abbey, Caldey Island cloister The figure of Benedict is robed in a way more characteristic of Orthodox monks than western Catholic religious. The image has many similarities with representations of St John Climacus, a near contemporary of Benedict and revered as one of the founders of eastern monasticism. Baily, himself much influenced by Orthodoxy, seems here to have 'merged' pre-eminent founding fathers of monasticism east and west quite deliberately in his image of Benedict. The figure of the Blessed Virgin Mary also shows the strong influence of Orthodox icons. |
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- Benedict of Nurcia, abbot of Monte Cassino and founder of the Benedictine Order
- Madonna: Mary standing (or half-length), Christ-child close to her bosom
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Further reading
Martin Crampin and John Morgan-Guy, Imaging the Bible in Wales (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), Reproduction and Tradition: The Orthodox World.
ReferencesThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 146.
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