NDLI: Wittenberg Reliquary Book (Wittenberger Heiligthumsbuch), 1510

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Wittenberg Reliquary Book (Wittenberger Heiligthumsbuch), 1510

Content Provider	Art Institute of Chicago
Artist	Lucas Cranach the Elder
Spatial Coverage	Germany
Temporal Coverage	1510
Description	Lucas Cranach produced this souvenir catalogue to promote the prized collection of relics and reliquaries of his patron, Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony. Copies were printed on paper and more luxurious vellum, although the paper printings are now scarcer. The sequence of woodcuts walks pilgrims through every stage of the yearly viewing; each relic offered a hundred days of indulgence. Pilgrims witnessing them all would have amassed an impressive 500,500 days (1,371 years) of respite from Purgatory. Yet Frederick's protégé, the radical Martin Luther, would soon speak out against the practice of granting indulgences, and the relic collection would be shown for the last time in 1522. The pages visible here depict Mary Magdalene's hair, nineteen particles of Saint Cecilia, and other relics. [A work made of woodcut engraving and letterpress on cream laid paper, in original limp brown goatskin with wrap-around fore-edge flap, decorated with a blind outer fillet frame with intersecting interior blind lines.]
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Access Restriction	Open
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Use Rights URL	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Subject Keyword	Paper (fiber Product) Woodcut (process) Prints and Drawings Artworks
Content Type	Image
Resource Type	Visual Artwork
Object Type	Books & Publications

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