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MEMBERS ROOM // "Ursula and Her Sisters: The Birmingham Museum's Female Saint (c. 1500) in Context"

Dr. Tanja Jones, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama, identifies the museum's nearly life-sized polychrome wood sculpture of a Female Saint (c. 1500) with late medieval reliquaries dedicated to St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgins with whom, tradition held, she was martyred at Cologne. The Birmingham Female Saint is identified as a particularly fascinating example for representing a blend of full-sized sculpture and two reliquary types, the body-part reliquary and the worn reliquary pendant.