Artist: Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)
Date: 1511
Size: 340 x 207 cm
Museum: Scuola del Santo (Padua, Italy)
Technique: Frescoes
In the unusually lavish architecture of the reliquary, the relics are distributed over various levels depending on their sacred ranking. Angels and four figures of importance in the life of Charlemagne stand in front holding the coffin-shaped, open-sided shrine containing the arm relic of the Emperor. The lid of the coffin serves as a pedestal for the Virgin and Child in the centre, St Catherine (right), with the relic of her tooth in a miniature reliquary, and Charlemagne (left), who holds a model of Aachen Cathedral. In the three turrets on the roof are displayed the most important relics, those of the Passion of Christ.
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