Detail View: The AMICA Library: Reliquary Shrine

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.62.96
AMICA Library Year: 
2000
Object Type: 
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name: 
de Touyl, Jean
Creator Nationality: 
European; French
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
French, died 1349
Creator Name-CRT: 
Attributed to Jean de Touyl
Title: 
Reliquary Shrine
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
second quarter of the 14th century
Creation Start Date: 
1450
Creation End Date: 
1474
Materials and Techniques: 
Gilt-silver, translucent enamel, paint
Classification Term: 
Enamels-Translucent
Dimensions: 
H. 10 in. (25.4 cm); W. when open 16 in. (40.6 cm)
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
62.96
Credit Line: 
The Cloisters Collection, 1962
Rights: 
Context: 

This sumptuous reliquary sets the Virgin and Child, accompanied by angels, within an elaborate Gothic architectural shrine. The arches, vaults, and sculptural decorations are of gilded silver; translucent enamel panels on the wings depicting scenes from the life of the Virgin and the Infancy of Christ evoke stained-glass windows. This example, one of only four such shrines to have survived, is recorded in the eighteenth-century inventories of the convent of the Poor Clares of the Order of St. Francis at Buda (part of the modern city of Budapest), founded by Queen Elizabeth of Hungary in 1334.

Related Image Identifier Link: 
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