A Curious Commission: The Reliquary of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg
Eliza Garrison
Safely back in the treasury of Saint Servatius Quedlinburg since early 1990s, Reliquary St. is remarkable part for luxuriousness its materials and striking nature images carved into Carolingian ivory core early-thirteenth-century silver niello base. Originally created Fulda someone circle Charles Bald, it presumed that emperor Otto I presented to sometime mid-tenth century. The reliquary's present appearance result a renovation sponsored about 1200 by Servatius' abbess prioress. It was at this point small box cloaked with gems, gold filigree, cloisonne enamels provided new This study addresses how precious additions reliquary responded iconography Commission Apostles. coalescence imagery added thirteenth-century emphasize significance t...
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