Urs-Beat Frei

Urs-Beat Frei

Urs-Beat Frei is a specialist in Christian religious art and culture. He is engaged as conservator of the Lucerne Treasury, and works as a freelance consultant and author.

The Zug Monstrance Competition

Urs-Beat Frei 11.01.2023 There is benefit for the church in rivalry between king and emperor. As in Oberägeri and Unterägeri in the canton of Zug, which each acquired an extraordinary baroque monstrance – with a political message attached, mind you.
Competition of the monstrances in Central Switzerland. Illustration by Marco Heer