Building on a rich body of historical, art historical, and anthropological literature, this graduate seminar explores the 'material rhetoric' of a distinct collection of Western medieval reliquaries and liturgical objects that from part of the so-called Guelph Treasure, the largest and culturally most significant ecclesiastical treasures to survive from Medieval Germany.
Best known for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover – which explores his regular themes of sex, violence and death – the director is now in discussions with the Vatican to project images on to one of the most significant art treasures in the world – Michelangelo's Last Judgement, a fresco on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
The most significant of these treasures, however, is a series of ivory horn-shaped drinking vessels, or rhytons.
And they're the most important treasures I have.
During the 19th century, one of the most significant buyers of British ancestral treasures was the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum of Berlin.
Called "one of the most significant buildings in this city, a treasure of art and architecture" by Baltimore Magazine, the church underwent a $1.8 million restoration between 2001 2003.
A 1954 Sotheby's auction of his treasures was later deemed one of the most significant sales of the century.
Among the Cathedral's many treasures is its reliquary, which contains some of Catholicism's most significant relics, including the purported Crown of Thorns, a fragment of the True Cross, and one of the Holy Nails.
The late 1980s discovery of treasures in Nimrud's royal tombs was one of the 20th century's most significant archaeological finds.
In an 11-week program titled "Archive Treasures," it is in effect showing off, presenting its greatest hits, which include some of the most significant and popular restorations it has ever done. .
