UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, Italian
(active late 15th century in Lombardy)

Reliquary of the Cross

1490s
Gilded silver, enamel, height 16,5 cm
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan

This reliquary, one of the masterpieces of 15th-century Lombard goldsmiths, represents in the centre the scene of Nativity, flanked by St Bernardino (at the left) and St Louis of Toulouse (at the right). The panel of St Bernardino was redone in the 19the century.




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