Servatius plates, silver, gilt, Object (per plate): Height: cm; Width: cm; Depth: 2,5 cm, Pictorial works/Applied and fine arts, Reliquaries, Gold-/silversmith work, Church equipment, Saints, Medieval art, Out of gratitude for a healing Duke Heinrich of Bavaria (1386-1450) donated a reliquary bust to the Servatius Church in Maastricht in 1403. It shows St. Servatius, who died in 384 as bishop of Tongern. The eight silver-gilt relief plates originally adorned the octagonal base of the bust, which is no longer preserved. With great narrative pleasure and realistic accuracy

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License: Licensed
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