Saint Norbert is visited by St. Augustine to hand down his monastic rule
- Author, school, workshop
- Norbertine monastic sculptor (?)
- Style
- Late Mannerism
- Date
- 1662–1665
- Material and technique
- Oak wood; shallow relief
- Size
- Height 145 x width 85 cm
- Location
- The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wroclaw, Poland
- Description
- In the foreground, on the axis, kneels St Norbert facing left in profile, wearing the habit of his order. Above his diagonally positioned pastoral, a representation of St. Augustine seated on a cloud fills the upper left corner of the composition.
The Father of the Church in episcopal robe, bearded, with a mitre on his head surrounded by a radiant halo and a burning heart pierced by two arrows in his left hand, hands Saint Norbert an open book with his right hand. The inscription in it reads: SIT VOBIS ANIMA UNA ET COR UNUM ET NON DICATIS ALIQUID PROPRIUM.
St. Norbert looking up at Augustine with his right hand receiving the rule of the order, his left hand extended sideways along the pastoral, his thumb holding an olive branch. Below is a whip and an open book.
Behind Norbert's back, on a table covered with a fringed tablecloth, stands a cross beneath which a monk (perhaps the author of the reliefs?) is depicted in bust, and at his sides an hourglass (left) and a folio fastened with buckles (right).
Relief based on Th.Galle's engraving no.17 from the 'Vita S. Norberti' a book annotated and published by Ch. van der Sterre in Antwerp in 1622.
