Reliquary casket

Lorenzo Ghiberti

1446 · Gilt copper and champlevé enamel · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The strongly architectural nature of the design suggests that it may have been based on a late antique sarcophagus. The inscription (on the two end panels) may be translated, "Domina Mattea, wife of Renzo, had this work made for the sake of her soul and those of her family, 1446."

Artist

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Date

1446

Medium

Gilt copper and champlevé enamel

Culture

Italian, Florence

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1981