Jean, duc de Berry spared no expense for this dazzling reliquary containing a thorn from the Crown of Thorns.
Jean, duc de Berry spared no expense for this dazzling reliquary containing a thorn from the Crown of Thorns.
This work at the British Museum
Martina Bagnoli, Holger Klein, C. Griffith Mann, James Robinson, editors, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, exhibition catalogue (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2011).
John Cherry, The Holy Thorn Reliquary (London: British Museum, 2010).