Reliquary with Relics of Christ's Shroud and of Various Martyrs

1598 (Baroque)

17.9 cm 31.4 cm 18.1 cm

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This reliquary originally housed about 60 Christian relics, including one said to be from the shroud of Christ. On the front are the image of St. James and a piece of bone identified as being from the apostle, who was believed to have preached in Spain and whose purported reli...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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