Examples of reliquary in the following topics:
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- Personal objects (psalters and triptychs), reliquaries, and icons were popular objects of worship during the Middle Byzantine period.
- A reliquary is a protective container used for the storage and display of sacred objects called relics.
- Reliquaries take many forms and shapes and are made out of a variety of materials.
- However, many reliquaries were made from or decorated with expensive material, such as gold and precious stones.
- This reliquary depicts a scene of the Crucifixion with fourteen saints around the border.
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- The Kota are noted for their copper and brass reliquary guardian figures , which are part of a powerful religious and mystical order known as Bwete.
- In Central West Africa, reliquaries used in the Bwete rituals contain objects considered magical, or the bones of ancestors, and are commonly constructed with a guardian figure attached to the reliquary.
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- The Stavelot Triptych and Reliquary of St.
- Large reliquaries and altar frontals were built around a wooden frame, but smaller caskets were made entirely of metal and enamel.
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- A great number of textiles, most notably silks, were exported; many are found in the church treasuries of Christendom, where they served as covering for saints' reliquaries.
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- However, the chapel proper was a private royal chapel and scholars have noted how the structure almost looks like metalwork, as if the chapel itself is a reliquary.
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- The shrine takes the form of a large reliquary in the shape of a basilican church, made of bronze and silver.
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- Precious objects sculpted in metal, enamel, and ivory, such as reliquaries, also had very high status in this period.
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- Geneviève and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics.
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- Craftsmen also created massive temple bells, reliquaries, and statutes.