メトロポリタン美術館のインスタグラム(metmuseum) - 6月8日 01時48分

As part of our #MetAccess program, every month we invite Disabled and Deaf artists to respond to works in The Met's collection that spark their curiosity or inspiration. ⁣⁣⁣

Today @darrinmartin shares thoughts on this 13th-century arm reliquary, writing:

"I can let down my guard. Behind a glass vitrine, this relic reminds me of time out of joint. Looking more contemporary than an object made in the 13th century, I consider it more akin to funk art than that which contains the remains of the Irish Saint Fiacre, known for healing the sick. The crude seams connecting the silver sheets throughout the hand feels cobbled together like the flesh of Frankenstein.

All reliquaries are time capsules, though the life-sized scale and anatomical rendering of this one fill me with wonder and the possibility of aligning it with lost crip technologies. Is there shame in writing that the comic geek in me wonders if this is the sole inspiration of a powerful gauntlet in the Marvel universe or if it makes me fantasize about it being some sort of prosthetic of blessing from the past seeking to allure its true owner in the future?

I leave the object with more questions concerning the possibility of Saint Fiacre’s corpse missing an arm and a curiosity in the nature of the Saint’s cures. A text describing another object found on-line in the Met’s collection, a statuette of Saint Fiacre himself, describes him as the patron saint of gardening, credited with growing healing herbs and notes that he was 'particularly renown for curing hemorrhoids.' This curious fact raises my eyebrow and makes me reconsider a possible misinterpretation of the reliquary’s gesture of benediction to something perhaps a bit more utilitarian."

🎨 Artist unknown. Arm Reliquary, 13th century, with 15th century additions. Silver, silver-gilt, glass and rock crystal cabochons over wood core.

[Image: A silver reliquary of an arm whose base is where an elbow would be gestures with its index and middle finger extending upwards. To human scale, the bejeweled encrusted roomy sleeve rises nearly to the wrist where a tighter sleeve with Latin embellishments cuffs the hand. Details of the fingers and sleeve follow.]

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