Unlike much of the art produced in the intervening centuries, works made in the Middle Ages served specific religious purposes and functions. Reliquaries are a great example of this divide between ...

Claims on the Guelph Treasure stretch back nearly two decades, and Germany’s plans to change how restitutions are evaluated ...

This reliquary holds a bone fragment purportedly belonging to Saint Sebastian, within a central rock-crystal vessel. Reliquaries—containers constructed to hold relics, typically the bones of saints or ...