Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
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fieschi-morgan-staurotheke-191-6721899
title:
Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
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The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke is a small reliquary designed to hold a relic of the true cross, it is 1 1/16 x 4 1/16 x 2 13/16 inches overall with lid. It is an example of Byzantine enameling. The box is dated to 843. Both dates hover around the second wave of Byzantine Iconoclasm from 814 to 842, allowing this piece to become a lens into the post iconoclastic art. These reliquaries doubled as an icon in style and purpose. The physical material of icons and the content within the reliquary were
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Enamels-cloisonné highlighted in The MET collection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieschi_Morgan_Staurotheke
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2022-12-24T15:54:37Z
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