Reliquary bust of a companion of Saint Ursula발음듣기
Reliquary bust of a companion of Saint Ursula
St Ursula had eleven thousand virgin companions all of whom were slaughtered by the Huns according to legend and a great cult of St Ursula and her virgin masters emerges in the Middle Ages.발음듣기
This one made probably in Brussels or South Netherlandish and she represents an aristocratic figure this elaborate hairstyle which is braided round the top of her head with festoons of drapery and hair around the back.발음듣기
She's absolutely a perfectly beautifully observed work of portraiture but in fact the secret that it conceals was that it was also a reliquary so inside the head there's a cavity which opens and that's where the relic of the skull of the Saint would have been kept.발음듣기
A pendant hangs around her neck and behind a window on hear breast would have been a second relic possibly part of the breast bone.발음듣기
When you look at her face she's communicating with you very directly she's making perhaps a sympathetic response to a prayer and because after all the Saints were entreated to for their powers of intersession.발음듣기
So the idea is that someone would have prayed to the Saint and appealed for her help in adversity and the prayers of the Saint of course carrying much greater currency with God because the Saint's have proved their virtue through their martyrdom.발음듣기
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