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Il est compos\u00e9 d\u0027un morceau de bois creux qui contenait les reliques, et sur lequel sont fix\u00e9es deux plaques quadrilob\u00e9es en \u00e9mail sur cuivre champlev\u00e9. Sur la tranche, une bande d\u0027argent repouss\u00e9 conf\u00e8re un caract\u00e8re pr\u00e9cieux au reliquaire, renforc\u00e9 par quatre boules de cristal de roche.\r\nSur une face se trouve la repr\u00e9sentation de l\u0027empereur ottonien Henri II (ayant r\u00e9gn\u00e9 de 1002 \u00e0 1024), canonis\u00e9 en 1146, entre son \u00e9pouse Cun\u00e9gonde et le moine tonsur\u00e9 dont le nom est inscrit : \u0022Welandus\u0022. Celui-ci, agenouill\u00e9, tient dans ses mains le reliquaire qu\u0027il offre \u00e0 saint Henri. Sur l\u0027autre face est repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le Christ entre les rois Oswald, roi de Northumbrie au VIIe si\u00e8cle, Sigismond, roi de Bourgogne au VIe si\u00e8cle, et Eug\u00e9e, peut-\u00eatre le l\u00e9gendaire roi d\u0027\u00c9cosse, tous trois consid\u00e9r\u00e9s comme saints.\r\nSur le pied se trouvent quatre saints militaires : S\u00e9bastien, Maurice, Eustache et G\u00e9r\u00e9on. Tous les personnages sont identifi\u00e9s par des inscriptions latines.\r\nCette \u0153uvre a sans doute \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e \u00e0 Hildesheim dans le contexte politique li\u00e9 au duc de Saxe Henri le Lion (dynastie des Guelfes ou Welf), qui porte le m\u00eame nom que l\u2019empereur Henri qu\u2019il a tenu \u00e0 faire canoniser. Le manuscrit enlumin\u00e9 de l\u0027\u00e9vang\u00e9liaire d\u2019Henri le Lion \u00e0 Wolfenb\u00fcttel est l\u0027une des autres expressions comparables du foyer artistique de Basse-Saxe.","inscriptions":"","namesAndTitles":"","onomastics":"","dimension":[{"type":"Hauteur","value":"23,6","displayDimension":"23,6 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":1,"note":""},{"type":"Largeur","value":"15,8","displayDimension":"15,8 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":2,"note":""},{"type":"Profondeur","value":"2,7","displayDimension":"2,7 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":3,"note":""},{"type":"Diam\u00e8tre","value":"8,3","displayDimension":"8,3 cm","unit":"cm","anteriorPrecision":"","posteriorPrecision":"","tri":4,"note":""}],"shape":"","materialsAndTechniques":"Mat\u00e9riau\/Technique : Email champlev\u00e9 sur cuivre dor\u00e9, argent, cristal de roche, \u00e2me de bois\r\nMat\u00e9riau : cuivre\r\nTechnique : dor\u00e9 = dorure (techniques m\u00e9tal)\r\nTechnique : \u00e9mail champlev\u00e9 (techniques m\u00e9tal-\u003E\u00e9maill\u00e9 = \u00e9maillage = \u00e9mail = \u00e9maux)\r\nMat\u00e9riau : argent\r\nMat\u00e9riau : cristal de roche","placeOfCreation":"Hildesheim (Allemagne-\u003EBasse-Saxe = Basse Saxe)","dateOfDiscovery":"","placeOfDiscovery":"","provenance":"Hildesheim (Allemagne-\u003EBasse-Saxe = Basse Saxe) (Saint-Michel d\u0027Hildesheim)","historicalContext":[],"objectHistory":"Provient de l\u0027ancienne abbaye Saint-Michel d\u0027Hildesheim; ancienne collection Franz Engelke (1778-1856); acquis chez le peintre et marchand  Antoine-Jean-Marie Arondel pour le mus\u00e9e des Souverains par le comte Horace de Viel-Castel, 1858.","jabachInventory":"","napoleonInventory":"","previousOwner":[{"value":"Comte Salviac de Viel-Castel, Horace de","note":" (acquis par le comte de Viel Castel pour le mus\u00e9e du Louvre chez le marchand parisien Arondel)","role":", Conservateur"},{"value":"Arondel, Antoine Jean Marie","note":"","role":", Antiquaire \/ Marchand d\u0027art"},{"value":"Engelke, Franz","note":"","role":", Collectionneur"},{"value":"Hildesheim, \u00e9glise Saint-Michel","note":" (provenance)","role":""}],"acquisitionDetails":[{"mode":"achat","doubt":"","dates":[{"type":"date de l\u0027arr\u00eat\u00e9","value":"21\/08\/1858","startYear":1858,"endYear":1858}]}],"ownedBy":"Etat","heldBy":"Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, D\u00e9partement des Objets d\u0027art du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes","longTermLoanTo":"","index":{"Mode d\u0027acquisition":[{"value":"achat"}],"period":[{"value":"roman"}],"place":[{"value":"Hildesheim"}],"objectType":[{"value":"reliquaire polylob\u00e9"},{"value":"orf\u00e8vrerie, argenterie"}]},"bibliography":[{"bibliographyRef":"Barbarossa. 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