Saint with armorial shield

Saint with armorial shield , 1400s

Where object was made: German Rhineland, France, or the Burgundian Netherlands

Material/technique: marble; relief

Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 68.4 x 48.3 cm
Weight (Weight): 58 lbs

Credit line: Museum purchase through The Kansas University Endowment Association

Accession number: 1958.0036

Not on display

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Empire of Things

This architectural relief incorporates the fictive Arms of Charlemagne (circa 742-814), which were associated with the emperor during the late medieval period. The first of the Holy Roman Emperors, Charlemagne had been canonized and adopted as a venerated ancestor by both the French Valois monarchy, who ruled from 1328 to 1589, and the German, Bohemian, and later Austrian Holy Roman Emperors. Charlemagne’s coat of arms appears as a conflation of the royal arms of the Valois Kings (the fleur de lys) and a double eagle associated with the Holy Roman Emperors.