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Arm Reliquary of St. Babylas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2009
Arm Reliquary of Saint Babylas
Artist/maker unknown, German
Geography: Made in Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe
Date: 1467
Medium: Silver, gilded silver, enamel, glass paste stones, rock crystals, and one amethyst on an oak core
Dimensions: 18 5/8 × 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 inches (47.3 × 14.9 × 9.8 cm)
Curatorial Department: European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Object Location: Gallery 216, European Art 1100-1500, second floor
Accession Number: 1951-12-1
Credit Line: Purchased with Museum funds, 1951
Label:
Saint Babylas (died around 250) was a bishop of Antioch and a Christian martyr. The blessing gesture seen here is commonly associated with bishops and thus a number of reliquaries exist in this form.
Additional information:
Publication- Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections
According to an inventory of 1482, this life-sized reliquary originally enshrined an arm bone of Saint Babylas, a bishop of Antioch martyred around 250 A.D. The object was designed for the relic to sit in the hollow chamber and be visible through the latticework door. Traditionally, vessels for relics were often made in forms appropriate to the sacred objects they contained. Here the hand, rendered in the naturalistic style of the late fifteenth century, makes a clear gesture of blessing, an activity associated with bishops that implies their benevolent communication with the faithful. This is one of a dozen arm reliquaries once part of the Guelph treasure, an important medieval sacral collection of over 140 relics and liturgical objects that was kept for centuries at the cathedral of Saint Blaise at Brunswick, Germany, until it was dispersed in the 1930s. Dean Walker, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 114.
Text from: www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52231.html?mulR=1311988399|1
Artist/maker unknown, German
Geography: Made in Brunswick, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe
Date: 1467
Medium: Silver, gilded silver, enamel, glass paste stones, rock crystals, and one amethyst on an oak core
Dimensions: 18 5/8 × 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 inches (47.3 × 14.9 × 9.8 cm)
Curatorial Department: European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Object Location: Gallery 216, European Art 1100-1500, second floor
Accession Number: 1951-12-1
Credit Line: Purchased with Museum funds, 1951
Label:
Saint Babylas (died around 250) was a bishop of Antioch and a Christian martyr. The blessing gesture seen here is commonly associated with bishops and thus a number of reliquaries exist in this form.
Additional information:
Publication- Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections
According to an inventory of 1482, this life-sized reliquary originally enshrined an arm bone of Saint Babylas, a bishop of Antioch martyred around 250 A.D. The object was designed for the relic to sit in the hollow chamber and be visible through the latticework door. Traditionally, vessels for relics were often made in forms appropriate to the sacred objects they contained. Here the hand, rendered in the naturalistic style of the late fifteenth century, makes a clear gesture of blessing, an activity associated with bishops that implies their benevolent communication with the faithful. This is one of a dozen arm reliquaries once part of the Guelph treasure, an important medieval sacral collection of over 140 relics and liturgical objects that was kept for centuries at the cathedral of Saint Blaise at Brunswick, Germany, until it was dispersed in the 1930s. Dean Walker, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 114.
Text from: www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/52231.html?mulR=1311988399|1
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