圣伊里耶的圣物箱半身像 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	圣伊里耶的圣物箱半身像
品名（英）	Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix
入馆年号	1917年，17.190.352a, b
策展部门	中世纪艺术（Medieval Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1220 - 公元 1240
创作地区	制造于: 法国, 利摩日（Made in: France, Limoges）
分类	金属制品银（Metalwork-Silver）
尺寸	整体 (Reliquary): 15 x 9 3/16 x 10 1/4 英寸 (38.1 x 23.4 x 26.1 厘米) 其他 (Wooden core): 14 7/16 x 8 7/8 x 9 13/16 英寸 (36.6 x 22.5 x 24.9 厘米)
介绍（中）	Saint-Yrieix的头骨曾被收藏在这个圣骨箱中，他是利摩日南部一座修道院的六世纪创始人，现在以他的名字命名。中世纪时期，利摩日地区发展了一种以当地圣人头像形式对圣物箱的特殊崇拜，这种崇拜一直延续到今天。在节日的日子里，这尊雕像会被带着游行队伍穿过街道，然后被放在祭坛上供信徒崇敬银色图像最初覆盖着一个木芯，该木芯在附近展出。尽管雕刻得很仔细，但它最初并不是为了让人看到，而是为了给贵金属外壳提供形状和支撑。一旦头骨就位，这个木芯虽然雕刻得很敏感，但会被银片完全遮住。珍贵的材料唤起了圣人天堂般的面容，而头骨则赋予了他永恒的权威感。
介绍（英）	Saint Yrieix, whose skull was once contained in this reliquary, was the sixth-century founder of a monastery in the town south of Limoges that now bears his name. A special veneration of reliquaries in the form of the heads of local saints developed in the Limoges region during the Middle Ages, a devotion that continues to the present day. On feast days the image would have been carried in procession through the streets and then placed on the altar for veneration by the faithful. The silver image originally covered a wooden core, which is exhibited nearby. Though carefully carved, it was not originally intended to be seen, but to give shape to and to provide support for the precious metal sheathing. Once the skull was set in place this wooden core, though sensitively carved, would have been completely obscured by sheets of silver. The precious material evoked the saint’s heavenly countenance, while the skull imparted a sense of his abiding authority.