The 109 spectacular masterpieces on display until January 8, 2025 at the Marino Marini Museum in Florence chronicle more than five centuries of sacred art.
They’d been commissioned by European Catholic courts — Spain, Portugal, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as Genoa, Venice, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and the Kingdom of Naples, and mostly donated to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, founded in the 4th century AD and considered the holiest site of Christianity. The treasures include jewels, ornaments, chalices, tapestries, lit ur gical vestments and ves sels, codices, icons, paintings, and canopies.
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