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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

Church of Carabuco

Date:
16th-18th centuries
Medium:
canvas, adobe, oil paint, gold leaf, wood, mural painting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Carabuco
Keywords:
Mural Painting, Mission, Bolivia, Cross, Painting, Hell, Last Judgment, Heaven, Purgatory
Grey Cross with Blue

O'Keeffe, Georgia
Date:
1929 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, painting
Repository:
Albuquerque Museum
Keywords:
Cross, Georgia O'Keeffe, Penitentes, Puebla
Cross with Red Sky (Black Cross with Red Sky)

O'Keeffe, Georgia
Date:
1929 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, painting
Repository:
Private Collection.
Keywords:
Cross, Georgia O'Keeffe, Penitentes, Puebla
Black Cross with Stars and Blue

O'Keeffe, Georgia
Date:
1929 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, painting
Repository:
Private Collection.
Keywords:
Cross, Georgia O'Keeffe, Penitentes, Puebla
Penitente Cross and Morada behind Mabel Dodge Luhan’s property at Taos

Date:
ca. 1924-50 CE
Tradition:
Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Penitentes)
Place of Origin:
Taos
Repository:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Keywords:
Cross, Georgia O'Keeffe, Penitentes, Puebla
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul of Kirton-in-Holland

Hayward, William, Fowler, Charles Hodgson
Date:
13th century CE
Medium:
limestone, architecture
Tradition:
Church of England
Place of Origin:
Kirton
Keywords:
Medieval, Parish Church, Architecture, Church
Church of St. Mary of Sutterton

Date:
mid 12th to early 13th century CE
Medium:
limestone, architecture
Tradition:
Church of England
Place of Origin:
Sutterton
Keywords:
Medieval, Parish Church, Architecture, Church, Crossing tower, Stone spire
Church of St. Swithin of Bicker

Date:
first half of 12th century-second quarter of 13th century
Medium:
limestone, architecture
Tradition:
Church of England
Place of Origin:
Bicker
Keywords:
Medieval, Parish Church, Architecture, Church, Crossing tower
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul of Algarkirk

Carpenter, Richard Cromwell
Date:
early 13th century
Medium:
limestone, architecture
Tradition:
Church of England
Place of Origin:
Algarkirk
Keywords:
Early English, Medieval, Parish Church, Architecture, Church, Crossing tower
Lapel Button of an Unidentified Man

Date:
ca. 1900
Medium:
paper, celluloid, metal, photography, buttons
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keywords:
Button, Photography, Portraiture
Lantern glass slide, “John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas. 1928”

Curry, John Steuart, Ryerson Libary
Date:
ca. 1950 CE
Tradition:
Protestant
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keywords:
Lantern slides, Baptism, Painting, Photography
Lantern glass slide, “Christmas Eve”

Aubert, Joseph
Date:
ca. 1900
Tradition:
Christian
Place of Origin:
France
Repository:
Private Collection of Rachel McBride Lindsey
Subject:
Nativity
Keywords:
Lantern slides, Photography, Christmas, Nativity, Bible, Public School