Reliquary bust of a Bishop
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Reliquary bust of a Bishop
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Published 2018-06-28T16:20:35+00:00
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This sculpture of a bishop still contains two saintly relics: a fragment of skull in the head and a piece of rib in the chest under a crystal. Like the relics he holds, the bishop is also fragmented. posed eternally in the act of benediction, he has been cut off at his chest.
Technical Information
| Date published | 28/06/2018 |
More Information
| Title | Reliquary bust of a Bishop |
| Date | Circa 1520 |
| Accession | 2/61 |
| Medium | Oak and polychromy |
| Credit | Acquired in 1961 from Julius Bohler, Munich |
| Record | https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/bode-museum/home.html |
| Place | Bode Museum |
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