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Summary
Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist
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| Title |
Reliquary Box with Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist |
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| Description |
John the Baptist--the first person to recognize Christ as the promised savior and the one who baptized him in the Jordan River--was one of the Byzantine Empire’s most revered saints. This box shows four scenes from the saint’s life: John’s martyrdom, Christ’s baptism, John’s birth, and the announcement of his birth to his parents. It probably once housed one of the saint’s relics; several were kept in churches and monasteries in Constantinople, including fragments of his skull and right arm and locks of his blood-clotted hair. |
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| Date | 1300 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Tempera and gold on wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 9 x 23.5 x 9 cm (3 9/16 x 9 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medieval Art |
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| Accession number |
1999.229 |
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| Place of creation | Byzantium, Constantinople, late Byzantine period, 14th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Bruce Ferrini in memory of Robert P. Bergman | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.229 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
 
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 07:31, 22 January 2019 | | 3,400 × 2,231 (4.22 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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