Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 23, 2011

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Front view of the Holy Thorn Reliquary

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Habsburg collections until the 1860s, when it was replaced by a forgery during a restoration by an art dealer, which was not discovered until the 1920s. The reliquary has been described as "one of the supreme achievements of medieval European metalwork", and is currently part of a special exhibition of medieval religious treasures at the British Museum, which opens today. (more...
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