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Summary:
For centuries, the Church of St Bartholomew (Frankfurt Cathedral) had a richly decorated interior, and numerous precious objects in the church’s treasury. Although many of these items have been lost or destroyed, a selection of the remaining objects is nowadays on display in the two exhibition areas of the Dommuseum Frankfurt or guarded in the museum’s storage rooms. These objects are categorised as artworks and handled accordingly. Other objects are still an integral part of the church’s endowment – such as the oil painting by Oswald Onghers depicting St Bartholomew, which will be taken as an example in this paper. This painting entered the Church of St Bartholomew in 1678 and is still on display in the church itself. This poses certain challenges with regard to handling art according to museum standards. This article will shed light on how art-historically based categories of valuing an object are applied in all three of the contexts mentioned above – museum, storage room, and church.

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