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Objects, images, and a proliferation of materialities engage bodies and minds, events and ideas, in ways both profound and subtle. Material objects, especially as they are activated in religious practices broadly conceived, are situated at the heart of MAVCOR. This Material Objects Archive offers an ever-expanding online gallery of such objects. We invite you to use it as a tool for thinking and teaching, researching and writing—and we welcome your suggestions and contributions to this collaborative enterprise.

In 2017, MAVCOR initiated the MAVCOR Digital Spaces Project, documenting sacred spaces via 360º panorama (360s) and high resolution giga-pixel (Zooms) photography. You can view all Digital Spaces Project 360s and Zooms here, or you can check the appropriate box in the Material Objects Archive search to view affiliated material objects.

Material Objects

Monastery of San Miguel Arcángel of Temax

Date:
1591-1617 CE
Medium:
limestone, lime mortar, building stone, architecture
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Temax
Keywords:
Church, Colonial Mexico, Colonial, Mural Painting, Mission Church, Maya, Architecture
Monastery of San Antonio de Padua of Izamal

Date:
1552 CE
Medium:
limestone, lime mortar, building stone, architecture, sculpting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Izamal
Keywords:
Church, Colonial Mexico, Colonial, Mural Painting, Mission Church, Maya, Architecture
Monastery and Church of San Miguel Arcángel of Maní

Date:
1549 CE
Medium:
limestone, lime mortar, stone
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Maní
Keywords:
Church, Colonial Mexico, Colonial, Mural Painting, Mission Church, Maya, Architecture
Monastery of Santa Clara of Dzidzantún

Date:
1567 CE
Medium:
limestone, lime mortar, stone, architecture, painting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Dzidzantún
Keywords:
Church, Colonial Mexico, Colonial, Mural Painting, Mission Church, Maya, Architecture
Church of the Immaculate Conception of Tabi

Date:
late 17th century
Medium:
limestone, lime mortar, building stone, architecture
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Tabí
Keywords:
Church, Colonial Mexico, Colonial, Mural Painting, Mission Church, Maya, Architecture
Ets Chayim

Date:
ca. 1920 CE
Medium:
wood, ivory, glass, woodworking, Torah scrolls
Tradition:
Jewish
Repository:
Collection of Jonathan Boyarin and Elissa Sampson
Keywords:
Ets Chayim, Tree of Life, Judaica, Jewish, Torah
Judío

Brito, Fernando
Date:
2015 CE
Medium:
photographic materials, photography
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Sinaloa
Keywords:
Photography, Portrait, Mexico, Mayo, Catholicism
A Street in Old Samarkand

Date:
1905 CE
Tradition:
Jewish
Place of Origin:
Samarkand
Keywords:
Street, Photography, Jewish
Pagiel Leviyev’s home

Medium:
building materials, architecture
Tradition:
Jewish
Place of Origin:
Samarkand
Keywords:
Architecture, Judaism
Old South Presbyterian Church

Date:
1756 CE
Medium:
building stone, brick, wood, architecture
Tradition:
Presbyterian
Place of Origin:
Newburyport
Keywords:
Architecture, Church, New England, George Whitefield, Pilgrimage, Crypt, Burial, Calvinism, Evangelicalism, Presbysterian
Political graffiti on the exterior walls of the American University in Cairo

Date:
21st century CE
Medium:
spray paint, graffiti
Place of Origin:
Cairo
Keywords:
Graffiti, Cairo, Egypt
Political graffiti on the exterior walls of the American University in Cairo

Date:
21st century CE
Medium:
spray paint, graffiti
Place of Origin:
Cairo
Keywords:
Graffiti, Politics, Cairo, Egypt