| St Fidis St Maurice |
Sister and Brother ReliquaryBusts
St Fidis (1), a sister saint to St Maurice, was a short-lived (c1525-27) invention of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenberg perhaps a response to early presences of Christianised black ladies in waiting at the German Renaissance Court. One of these lades is seen in the Master of the Goslar Sibyl’s Calenberg Altarpiece now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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| Calenberg Altarpiece Center panel Boston Museum of Art |
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| Calenberg Altarpiece Detail showing Black lady in waiting https://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/66801798430/master-of-the-goslar-sibyls-the-calenberg/amp (1) Kaplan, Paul. (2016). The Calenberg Altarpiece: Black African Christians in Renaissance Germany In Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann (Eds.), GERMANY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA Points of Contact, 1250-1914 (pp. 21-37) Berghahn Books |
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