Contributor: Sophie Thomas Location: Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France Description: Dominique-Vivant Denon’s reliquary is both a personal collection and a portable, pan-European museum. It is a late gothic confection made of gilded copper, glass and semi-precious stone, complete with turrets and flying buttresses at each corner. Hexagonal in form, crowned with small cross atop a steeple, … Continue reading "Denon’s Reliquary"
