Der Mainzer Domschatz, ed. Hildegard Lütkenhaus and Winfried Wilhelmy. Meisterwerke des bischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums Mainz, 3. Regensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2022, 607 pp., 481 ill.

This richly photographic collection derived from an exhibition is divided into two parts, one a historical and museological overview of the liturgical collections of the old and new Mainz Cathedral treasury, and the other a catalogue of five art-historical eras within the collections, namely the Middle Ages; Renaissance and Mannerism; Baroque; Classicism, Empire, and Historicism; and Modern and Contemporary. The usual end matter follows the catalogue. The foreword begins with a historical legitimation of a gratuitous rhetorical question (“