The Parma Watercolors
Date:
late seventeenth centuryMedium:
watercolor, watercolor paper, watercolor paintingTradition:
CapuchinPlace of Origin:
Angola, CongoRepository:
Virgili CollectionKeywords:
Kongo, Angola, History, Nature, CapuchinYou are here
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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Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento and Angelo Piccardo, Breve, e svccinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo nell' Africa meridionale
Date:1692Repository:Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies and Houghton Library.Keywords:Kongo, Missionary, Angola, Architecture, Nature -
Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi and Fortunato Alamandini, Istorica descrizione
Lorena, Paolo da, Alamandini, FortunatoDate:1687Tradition:CapuchinPlace of Origin:ItalyRepository:Getty Research InstituteKeywords:Kongo, Angola, Missionary, Capuchin, Crucifix -
Of the People, Victuals, Customs, Animals, and Fruits of the Kingdoms of Africa
Date:1652-1663Medium:ink, paperTradition:CapuchinRepository:Museo Francescano, Istituto storico dei CappucciniSubject:Atlas of food and customs of Kongo and AngolaKeywords:Kongo, Angola, Capuchin, Ritual, History -
The Araldi Manuscript
Cavazzi, Giovanni AntonioDate:1665-1668Medium:watercolor, watercolor paper, ink, paper, watercolor paintingTradition:CapuchinRepository:Gallerie Estensi, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, ModenaKeywords:Njinga, Angola, Ndongo, Tobacco, Drum -
Frontispiece to Antonio da Gaeta and Francesco Maria Gioia, "La maravigliosa conversione alla santa fede di Cristo"
Miotte, PierreDate:1669Repository:Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityKeywords:Crucifix, Kongo, Angola, Missionary, Capuchin -
Image of the Virgin in Ignacio Carnago, "Cittá di Rifugio"
Lorena, Paolo daDate:1665Tradition:CapuchinRepository:Convento di Santa Maria dei Frati Cappuccini del Bigorio (Svizzera)Keywords:Immaculate Conception, Virgin, Virgin Mary -
"The Father Missionary Celebrates Mass" in Bernardino d'Asti, Missione in Prattica
Asti, Bernardino d'Date:ca. 1750Medium:watercolor, paper, watercolor paintingTradition:CapuchinRepository:Biblioteca Civica Centrale di TorinoKeywords:Catholic, Mass, Missionary, Kongo, Angola -
Pendant: Saint Anthony of Padua
Date:16th-19th centuryMedium:brass, castingTradition:CatholicPlace of Origin:Angola, CongoRepository:The Metropolitan Museum of ArtSubject:Saint Anthony of PaduaKeywords:Pendant, Kongo, Angola, Saint Anthony of Padua -
Juxtaposition of Aya Sofya 3465, fol. 1b, with Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Supplément Persan 913, fol. 2b
Medium:paper, manuscriptsTradition:IslamicKeywords:Manuscript, Islamic kingship, Royalty, History -
ʿAzīz ibn Ardashīr Astarābādī, Bazm wa Razm, ed. Tawfīq Subḥānī and Hūshang Sāʿidlū (Tehran: Anjuman-i Āthār wa Mafākhir-i Farhangī, 1395/2016)
Date:2016 CEMedium:paper, letterpress printingTradition:IslamicPlace of Origin:TehranRepository:Personal collectionKeywords:Manuscript, Islamic kingship, Royalty, History -
ʿAzīz ibn Ardashīr al-Astarābādī, ed. Mehmet Fuat Köprülüzade, Bazm wa Razm (Istanbul: Evkaf Matbaasi, 1928)
Date:1928 CEMedium:paper, letterpress printingTradition:IslamicPlace of Origin:IstanbulRepository:Personal collectionKeywords:Manuscript, Islamic kingship, Royalty, History