Art History Terms to Know: Reliquary
A reliquary is a collection of holy objects and is used for personal worshiping.
Most famously used and produced in the Renaissance and Medieval times, reliquaries were not only useful in religious practice, but were also a big art form of the time. A reliquary consists of small sculptures or engravings of saints or gods and other small objects that could be used for worship. The majority of reliquaries were Catholic, but a small number were actually Buddhist.
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