Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket
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Several Reliquaries of Saint Thomas Becket were produced by the Limoges enamellists in the 1200s to house relics of Thomas Becket.
Reliquaries in public collections
[edit]- France
- Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot in Clermont-Ferrand;[1]
- Musée de la Sénatorerie in Guéret;[2]
- Musée de l'Évêché in Limoges;
- Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon;
- Musée du Louvre in Paris (2 reliquaries - Murder and Burial of Saint Thomas Becket and Martyrdom and Glorification of Saint Thomas Becket;
- Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris (2 reliquaries);
- Sens Cathedral;[3]
- Église Saint-Laurent in Le Vigean;[3]
- Germany
- Italy
- Anagni Cathedral;
- Museum of Lucca Cathedral;
- Sweden
- Church in Trönö, Hälsingland
- United Kingdom
- Ashmolean Museum in Oxford;[6]
- Hereford Cathedral;[7]
- British Museum in London;
- Victoria and Albert Museum in London;
- Burrell Collection in Glasgow;
- USA
- Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn[8] (Pennsylvania);
- Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland[9] (plaque);
- Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin[5]
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco;
- Toledo Art Museum in Toledo;[10]
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British Museum -
British Museum -
Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris -
Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris -
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon -
Musée des Beaux-Arts in Limoges
References
[edit]- ^ Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 16.
- ^ Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 10.
- ^ a b Foreville 1976, planche I
- ^ "St. Cecilia, Cologne".
- ^ a b "Martyrdom of Thomas Becket".
- ^ "Reliquary Casket of St. Thomas Becket".
- ^ "Hereford Cathedral".
- ^ Corpus des émaux méridionaux, t. II, notice I E 2, n° 4
- ^ "Plaque from a Chasse for Relics of Saint Thomas Becket".
- ^ Foreville 1976, planche II
Sources
[edit]- Foreville, Raymonde (October–December 1976). "La diffusion du culte de Thomas Becket dans la France de l'Ouest avant la fin du XIIe siècle". Cahiers de civilisation médiévale (in French) (76): 347–369.
External links
[edit]- Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, British ca. 1173–80 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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