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Reliquary of Saints John the Baptist and Dionysius the Areopagite.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Moscow)Unknown author
Title
Reliquary of Saints John the Baptist and Dionysius the Areopagite.
label QS:Lfr,"Reliquaire des saints Jean-Baptiste et Denys l'Aréopagite."
label QS:Len,"Reliquary of Saints John the Baptist and Dionysius the Areopagite."
label QS:Lpl,"Relikwiarz świętych Jana Chrzciciela i Dionizego Areopagity."
label QS:Lde,"Reliquienkasten der Heiligen Johannes der Täufer und Dionysius Areopagita."
Date 1602
date QS:P571,+1602-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium gilt on silver
Dimensions 35.5 × 27.5 cm (13.9 × 10.8 in)
institution QS:P195,Q686548
Current location
Schatzkammer
Accession number
63
Object history

1602: commissioned by Boris Godunov and Fyodor Borisovich, Moscow

1614: given to William V of Bavaria, Munich by Sigismund III Vasa, Warsaw
Notes Reliquary for right hands of Saints John the Baptist and Dionysius the Areopagite, established by Tsar Boris Fyodorovich Godunov and his son Fyodor Borisovich, contains the following inscription in Cyrillic: By order of the great ruler and grand prince Boris Fyodorovich, and the son and prince Fyodor Borisovich, this box was made for the bones of Saint John thr Bapt., Dionys. the Areopagite in the 4th year of their rule 7110 (1602). Later most probably presented by Vasili IV of Russia to the King of Poland.
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  • Hans Thoma (1958). Schatzkammer der Residenz München: Katalog. Bayerische Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen, p. 59
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