Relicarios: Devotional Miniatures from the Americas

About this book

The relicario is the Latin American version of the reliquary locket a small finely wrought devotional pendant used to contain relics and mementos of the saints. Martha Egan renowned authority on Latin American folk art spent over five years of travel and investigation finding and documenting the finest examples of Iberian and Latin American reliquary art world-wide. This book presents 125 refined examples of a religious art that rivals the illuminated books and gilded altars of the Medieval and Renaissance periods.