Relics, reliquaries, and the limitations of trecento painting: Naddo Ceccarelli's Reliquary Tabernacle in the Walters Art Museum.

The article discusses the relics, reliquaries and the limitations of trecento painting. It presents and discusses the Naddo Ceccarelli's reliquary tabernacle preserved in the Walters Art Museum, including the Reliquary Tabernacle with Virgin and Child and Christ as the Man of Sorrows. The Baltimore reliquary's focus on the relationship between panel painting, the diplay of relics and the visual culture of Marian devotion at the end of the Middle Ages is offered. Nino Pisano's statue of the Virgin and Child and a reliquary painted by Bartolo di Fredi are also discussed.