Can Büyükberber, Relics of the Holocene (2025)

A wooden reliquary bust of a cleric with a tonsured head. The bust is polychrome with a rock crystal set in the head beneath which a relic would have been visible. Reliquaries in t...

After the 9th-century Danish invasions and 10th-century reform of monasteries, the kind of decoration seen in earlier manuscripts such as the Lindisfarne Gospels becomes rare. Late...

A man charged with punishing a slave who venerated the relics of Saint Mark shows that his instrument of torture was broken by a miracle. Colour woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1731/1745,...

A man charged with punishing a slave who venerated the relics of Saint Mark shows that his instrument of torture was broken by a miracle. Colour woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1731/1745,...