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Arm Reliquary of the Apostles

Arm Reliquary of the Apostles

c. 1190

Gilt argent, champlevé enamel, oak

Overall: 51 x 14 x 9.ii cm (twenty one/xvi ten 5 one/two x 3 5/eight in.)

Souvenir of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.739

Location

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Reliquaries were prized non for the opulence that you encounter, but for the items that they held. They enshrined items associated with saints, like a piece of wearable they wore or a small portion of their remains. In this instance, an arm os is encased within.

Description

Taking the grade of a clothed lower arm with an outstretched mitt, this reliquary from the Guelph Treasure appropriately enshrines a piece of an unidentified saint's arm bone. Arm reliquaries like this ane served as liturgical props; during religious services and processions, the clergy used them to bless and bear on the faithful, thus making the presence of the saint more than palpable and immediate. The apostle busts that decorate this arm reliquary seem to indicate that the relic it contains is that of an apostle. Duke Henry the Lion, a major patron of the church of Saint Blaise, is known to have received such relics from the Byzantine emperor Manuel I (1143-1180) upon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Provenance

Monastery of St. Cyriakus, Brunswick

Treasury, Cathedral of St. Blaise, Brunswick

Business firm of Brunswick-Lüneburg (part of Guelph Treasure)

?-1930

(Goldschmidt Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1930-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

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Falke, Otto von "Hildesheimer Goldschmiedewerke des 12. Jahrhunderts im Welfenschatz," Pantheon vol 5 (June 1930). p. 274

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Milliken, William Mathewson, "The Conquering of Half-dozen Objects from the Guelph Treasure for the Cleveland Museum of Art: Foreword." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. ix (1930) p. 183 www.jstor.org

Falke, Otto von, Robert Schmidt, and Georg Swarzenski. Der Welfenschatz. Der Reliquienschatz des Braunschweiger Domes aus dem Besitze des herzoglichen Hauses Braunschweig-Lüneburg. Frankfurt am Principal: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt a. g, 1930.

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Swarzenski, Hanns. Monuments of Romanesque Art: The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe. London: Faber, 1967. cat. no. 212, pl. 212, figs. 496-98

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Brandt, Michael. Abglanz des Himmels: Romanik in Hildesheim : Katalog zur Ausstellung des Dom-Museums Hildesheim, Hildesheim 2001. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2001. p. 148, fig. 55

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Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. p. 122-3, no. 39

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. p. 123, true cat. no. 38

Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Religion: Liturgical Treasuries of the Center Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. p. 54, fig. 47

Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of Sky: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Fine art, 2010. True cat. no. 41

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Klein, Holger A. "Das Apostel-Armreliquiar aus dem Welfenschatz in Cleveland und der Typus der Armreliquiare." In Typen mittelalterlicher Reliquiare zwischen Innovation und Tradition: Beiträge einer Tagung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel am 22. Oktober 2016. Klaus Gereon Beuckers, and Dorothee Kemper, 23-46. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner; Hildesheim: Bernward.Medien, 2017. Reproduced: p. 24-30

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Exhibition history

Guelph Museum, Hanover, Germany (1861-66).

Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie, Vienna, Austria (1869).

Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Principal, Frg (1930).

Goldschmidt Gallery, New York, NY (1931).

Zeit der Staufer I, Würtemburgisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, (March-August 1977).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Fine art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Fine art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936).

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Fine art (organizer) (September 24-November xvi, 1975).

Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur (The Staufer Period: History, Fine art, Culture). Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany (organizer) (March 26-June 5, 1977).

All That Glitters: Slap-up Silvery Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January viii, 1995).

Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit (Henry the Lion and his time). Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (organizer) (August 6-November 12, 1995).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Fine art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (Feb thirteen-June 7, 2009).

Treasures of Sky: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Fine art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (Oct 17, 2010-Jan 17, 2011); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (February xiii-May 15, 2011); The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and Northern Republic of ireland (June 23-October 9, 2011).

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