27 January 2010

Reliquaries

This is perhaps the ultimate in "little houses" - it's the reliquary of St Louis of Toulouse, and you can read about the phenomenon of reliquaries here. In among my old photos (real film) are many pix of reliquaries, especially from the wonderful Schnuetgen museum in Cologne.
Often reliquaries are in human form - an arm or a foot holding a relevant bone.

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