Medieval History
The wonderfully ghoulish "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe" in the British Museum Round Reading Room is a spaciously installed group of sometimes ravishingly beautiful Christian objects of devotion?sculptural metalwork, precious gems, enamels, paintings and carvings?and most of them conceal bits of rotted wood or decomposed flesh.
n his introductory catalog essay Arnold Angenendt makes explicit the assumption that led early Christians to venerate their dead co-religionists' "nails and hair, their teeth, and above all their skulls": "the dead are not actually dead." He notes: "The Early Christians remembered and preserved only Jesus's words and miracles"; relic worship marked a return to pagan practices. The missing link with this actual, gorgeous exhibition, however, is the concept of the effect of magic on the primitive mind.
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- Badge Dug Up In Field Is Medieval Treasure
A scrap of twisted silver found a few weeks ago by a metal detector in Lancashire will take its place among masterpieces of medieval art at the British Museum, in an exhibition opening this week of the bejewelled shrines made to hold the relics of saints...
- British Museum To Host ?treasures Of Heaven: Saints, Relic And Devotion In Medieval Europe?
The British Museum?s major summer exhibition explores the spiritual and artistic significance of Christian relics and reliquaries in medieval Europe. Featuring some of the finest sacred treasures of the medieval age, Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics...
- British Museum To Host ?treasures Of Heaven: Saints, Relic And Devotion In Medieval Europe?
The British Museum?s major summer exhibition explores the spiritual and artistic significance of Christian relics and reliquaries in medieval Europe. Featuring some of the finest sacred treasures of the medieval age, Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics...
- Treasures Of Heaven: Saints, Relics And Devotion In Medieval Europe ? Now At The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum has begun an exhibition offering visitors a glimpse into the Middle Ages, a time when art mediated between heaven and earth and wondrous objects of gold, silver and precious gems filled churches and monastic treasuries. Relics,...
- Cleveland Museum Of Art Unveils Two Exhibits On Medieval Art This Fall
This fall, the Cleveland Museum of Art will premiere a groundbreaking exhibition examining the role of relics and reliquaries in the development of Christianity and the visual arts. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe...
Medieval History
Grisly Relics, Gorgeous Art
The wonderfully ghoulish "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe" in the British Museum Round Reading Room is a spaciously installed group of sometimes ravishingly beautiful Christian objects of devotion?sculptural metalwork, precious gems, enamels, paintings and carvings?and most of them conceal bits of rotted wood or decomposed flesh.
n his introductory catalog essay Arnold Angenendt makes explicit the assumption that led early Christians to venerate their dead co-religionists' "nails and hair, their teeth, and above all their skulls": "the dead are not actually dead." He notes: "The Early Christians remembered and preserved only Jesus's words and miracles"; relic worship marked a return to pagan practices. The missing link with this actual, gorgeous exhibition, however, is the concept of the effect of magic on the primitive mind.
Click here to read this article from the Wall Street Journal
- Badge Dug Up In Field Is Medieval Treasure
A scrap of twisted silver found a few weeks ago by a metal detector in Lancashire will take its place among masterpieces of medieval art at the British Museum, in an exhibition opening this week of the bejewelled shrines made to hold the relics of saints...
- British Museum To Host ?treasures Of Heaven: Saints, Relic And Devotion In Medieval Europe?
The British Museum?s major summer exhibition explores the spiritual and artistic significance of Christian relics and reliquaries in medieval Europe. Featuring some of the finest sacred treasures of the medieval age, Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics...
- British Museum To Host ?treasures Of Heaven: Saints, Relic And Devotion In Medieval Europe?
The British Museum?s major summer exhibition explores the spiritual and artistic significance of Christian relics and reliquaries in medieval Europe. Featuring some of the finest sacred treasures of the medieval age, Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics...
- Treasures Of Heaven: Saints, Relics And Devotion In Medieval Europe ? Now At The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum has begun an exhibition offering visitors a glimpse into the Middle Ages, a time when art mediated between heaven and earth and wondrous objects of gold, silver and precious gems filled churches and monastic treasuries. Relics,...
- Cleveland Museum Of Art Unveils Two Exhibits On Medieval Art This Fall
This fall, the Cleveland Museum of Art will premiere a groundbreaking exhibition examining the role of relics and reliquaries in the development of Christianity and the visual arts. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe...