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Material Objects Archive
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
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Woodward, George MoutardDate:1799 CEPlace of Origin:City of LondonRepository:New York Public Library Digital CollectionsKeywords:Tobacco, Smoking, Trade, Smoking Club
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Niemand sprak er (Nobody Spoke)
Delfos, Abraham, Troost, CornelisDate:1770 CEMedium:paper, ink, watercolor, brushwork, drawingPlace of Origin:NetherlandsRepository:RijksmuseumKeywords:Tavern, Tobacconists, Smoking, pipe, Trade, Tobacco Pipe, Tobacco -
Five Women at a Window
Haften, Nicolas vanDate:1694 CEPlace of Origin:ParisRepository:Museum Boijmans Van BeuningenKeywords:Women, Smoking, Tobacco Pipe, Etching -
Bricklayers Smoking a Pipe
Teniers, DavidDate:1675 CEMedium:oil paint, oil paintingPlace of Origin:BrusselsRepository:RijksmuseumKeywords:Smoking, Dutch, Trade, Tobacco Pipe -
Clay tobacco pipes
Date:1580-1590 CEMedium:pipe clay, smokingPlace of Origin:City of LondonRepository:The Science Museum, LondonKeywords:pipe, Tobacco, Clay, Smoking -
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún, unknown NahuaDate:1575-1577 CEMedium:wood pulp paper, ink, illuminated manuscriptsPlace of Origin:Mexico CityRepository:Biblioteca Medicea LaurenzianaKeywords:Nahua, Indigenous, Aztec, Codex, New Spain, Colonialism, Colonial Mexico -
Guftugu I (A discussion between Al-Biruni and Ibn Sina about Aristotle)
Araeen, RasheedDate:2014 CEMedium:acrylic paint, canvasTradition:IslamicPlace of Origin:City of LondonKeywords:Modernism, Islam, Science, Calligraphy, Text, Writing, Abstraction, Qur'an -
Rang Baranga
Araeen, RasheedDate:1969 CEMedium:wood, paint, sculpture techniquesTradition:IslamicPlace of Origin:City of LondonRepository:Tate GalleryKeywords:Sculpture, Geometry, Industry, Minimalism, Islam -
Bismullah
Araeen, RasheedDate:1988 CEMedium:photographic materials, acrylic paint, gilt paint, photographyTradition:IslamicPlace of Origin:City of LondonRepository:Tate GalleryKeywords:Postcolonial, Islam, Candles, Blood, Pakistan, Sacrifice, ‘Īd al-Aḍḥā, Abstraction, Modernism, Qur'an -
Eve Hearing the Voice
Ezekiel, Moses JacobDate:1876 CEMedium:modeling clay, modeling, sculpture techniquesTradition:JewishRepository:Original model destroyed. Photograph courtesy of The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.Subject:EveKeywords:Eve, Sculpture, Female Nude, Nude, Model -
Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Emma Smith)
Date:2015 CEMedium:paper, photographic film, ink, drawing, stampingTradition:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)Place of Origin:UtahKeywords:Polygamy, Mormonism, Marriage, Women, Protest -
Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (6)
Date:2015 CEMedium:paper, drawing paper, photographic materials, ink, drawing, photography, stampsTradition:Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)Place of Origin:UtahRepository:Church History Museum, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsKeywords:Polygamy, Mormonism, Marriage, Women, Protest