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Relic of St. Bartholomew
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About this work
This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, which is one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRelic of St. Bartholomew, c. 1045. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Mummified flesh/tissue. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1931.462.m
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