Relic of St. Bartholomew
1040–1050
- Medium
- Mummified flesh/tissue
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
About
This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, which is one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.