Reliquary Casket
- Object belonging
- One's own
- Category
- Bronze sculpture
- City
- Rome
- Location
- Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia
- Specific location
- Room 17
- Inventory
- PV 10857
- Material and technique
- Tin
- Author
- Southern Austrian School (?)
- Dating
- 16th century
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 18.7 cm. (5.5 x 15 x 15.7)
- Origin
- Auriti Collection (1963)
- Image copyright
- SSPSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma
Short description
This small tin box can be considered as a casket. The casket, whose lid is missing, is divided into two compartments, which were designed to hold relics, as the depiction of saints along the sides indicates. With no similar extant works it is difficult to specify where it was produced; the depiction of the figures as bishops is of little use in revealing their identities or their dioceses. Only the young martyr and the monk on the plaque marked “C” can be identified: the palm branch and the eyes on the dish identify St. Lucy, while the habit and cruciform banner identify John of Capistrano.
Pietro Cannata
Bibliography
L. Planiscig, La Collezione Giacinto Auriti, Vienna 1931, no. 50; A. Santangelo, Museo di Palazzo Venezia. La collezione Auriti, Rome 1964, p. 49; P. Cannata, Rilievi e placchette dal XV al XVIII secolo, exh. cat., Rome 1982, pp. 84-85.