Relic of St. Gertrude
1040–1050
- Medium
- Plain weave variant rose colored silk with an extant selvage
- Genre
- metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
About
This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.