Relic of St. Gertrude

Cleveland Museum of Art

Relic of St. Gertrude

Date
c. 1045
Medium
Plain weave variant rose colored silk with an extant selvage
Culture
Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

This relic is housed in the portable altar commissioned by Countess Gertrude of Brunswick, one of the Guelph Treasure’s earliest and most sumptuous objects. An X-ray revealed no solid material is wrapped in this piece of cloth.

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