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Casket with the Three Theological Virtues

c. 1525-c. 1550
Gold, enamel, rock crystal, and lapis lazuli
8.4 × 4.9 cm (3.3 × 1.9 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Miniature caskets might have been used in the Renaissance to house jewels or possibly saintly relics. This example features panels of engraved rock crystal, an extremely hard material of great clarity and polish that is carved only with patience and skill. The emblematic figures depicted here are modeled after the work of the sixteenth-century Italian painter Raphael.

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