Head and Bust Reliquaries

Head and Bust Reliquaries

Münster, Cathedral Treasury c. 1050 Saint Paul	Saint-Nectaire (Puy-de-Dôme) Reliquary bust of St. Baudime, copper gilt See Trésors, 1965, no. 447

Brussels, Musée du Cinquantenaire Pope St. Alexander, 1145 See Rhein und Maas, Cologne,1972, cat. no. G 11; J. Squilbeck, "Le chef-reliquaire du pape Alexandre aux Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire. Critique historique et examen des formes," Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art 53 (1984), 3-19	Kappenberg, Kath.pfarrkirche Fredrick Barbarossa c. 1165 See Die Zeit der Staufer, Stuttgart, 1977, cat. no. 535 (contains a relic of St. John)

Hildesheim, Cathedral Treasury Head reliquary of St. Oswald, silver, silver gilt, niello Probably commissioned by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, c. 1180 See de Winter, 1985, p. 85		London, British Museum Saint Eustace	Saint-Maurice d'Agaune, Switzerland Saint Maurice

Prague, Cathedral Saint Ludmilla	Florence Saint Humilità	Zürich, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Saint Just of Beauvais see Scott B. Montgomery in Gesta 36, 1997

	New York, Metropolitan Museum	St Yrieix

Created by Jane Vadnal
February 3, 1998 rev. MAS 5 March 08