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Strange Reliquaries
This reading has to do with reliquaries and the artist that surrounded them as well as their sometimes strange shapes. When talking about reliquaries no one ever mentions how it actually came about. When reading this excerpt it mentions how patrons would usually make their own workshops for specific works of art and hire artist they thought would be good for the job. The patrons seemed to be very involved in the creation of these pieces of art even though they didn’t physically make them. It seems like they had a specific vision for their reliquaries and wanted them to be exactly how they viewed them in their head, which then brings us to the next topic, strange reliquaries shapes. It seems like after a while just having golden boxes just

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