Cleveland Museum of Art
Bust Reliquary of St. Louis, Bishop of Toulouse
late 1300s
This small bust was hewn out of wood, but painted realistically. Its life-like accuracy gave the medieval worshipper the sense that they were in the presence of the beloved bishop Saint Toulouse.
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