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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

Effigy Tomb of Queen Louise of Prussia

Rauch, Christian Daniel
Date:
ca. 1810-1814 CE
Medium:
marble
Tradition:
Protestant
Place of Origin:
Rome
Repository:
Mausoleum, Charlottenburg Castle, Potsdam
Subject:
Queen Louise of Prussia
Keywords:
Death, Monument, Royalty, Queen, Memorial, Tomb, Sculpture
Drawing of a Tomb 1850

Wills, Frank
Date:
1840-1850 CE
Medium:
paper, ink
Tradition:
Episcopalian
Repository:
Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Keywords:
Death, Tomb, Drawing, Monument, Gothic Revival
Canopy Tomb of Alfred Miller

Strickland, William, Pettrich, Ferdinand
Date:
1840/44
Tradition:
Protestant
Place of Origin:
Philadelphia
Repository:
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Subject:
Alfred Miller
Keywords:
Death, Children, Mourning, Sculpture, Memorial, Monument
Memorial to the Burd Children

Steinhäuser, Carl
Date:
1849-1853
Medium:
marble
Tradition:
Episcopalian
Place of Origin:
Rome
Repository:
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Keywords:
Death, Monument, Memorial, Children, Sculpture, Mourning
Canopy Tomb of Bishop Branscombe

Date:
after 1280 CE
Medium:
stone, gilt paint, polychromy
Tradition:
Catholic
Place of Origin:
Exeter
Repository:
Exeter Cathedral
Subject:
Bishop Branscomb
Keywords:
Death, Tomb, Monument, Catholic, Bishops
Canopy Tomb of Christiana Bacon Medley

Wills, Frank, Bacon, John, II
Date:
1842 CE
Medium:
stone
Tradition:
Anglican
Place of Origin:
Exeter
Repository:
St. Thomas’s Church
Subject:
Christiana Bacon Medley
Keywords:
Gothic Revival, Ecclesiologists, Death, Memorial, Monument, Protestant
Canopy Tomb of Edward Shippen Burd

Wills, Frank, Brown, Henry Kirke
Date:
1849-1860 CE
Medium:
marble
Tradition:
Episcopalian
Place of Origin:
New York
Repository:
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Subject:
Edward Shippen Burd
Keywords:
Episcopalian, Protestant, Death, Memorial, Afterlife, Soul, Ecclesiologists, Monument, Sculpture
Reverend John Davenport preaching his first sermon in New Haven

Tiffany & Company, Lauber, Joseph
Date:
1890 CE
Medium:
stained glass
Tradition:
Protestant
Place of Origin:
New Haven
Repository:
Center Church on the Green
Subject:
Reverend John Davenport
Keywords:
Minister, Stained glass, Protestant, Colonial New England, New England
Double Portrait of Saint John Macías and Saint Martin of Porres

Date:
17th century CE
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Lima
Repository:
Basílica Santuario de Santa Rosa, Lima
Subject:
Saint Martin of Porres
Keywords:
Saint Martin of Porres, Saint John Macías, Portrait, True Portrait, Painting, Peru, Saints
Funerary portrait of Saint Rose of Lima

Medoro, Angelino
Date:
1617 CE
Medium:
oil paint, cloth, oil painting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Lima
Repository:
Basílica Santuario de Santa Rosa, Lima
Subject:
Saint Rose of Lima
Keywords:
Saint Rose of Lima, Saints, True Portrait, Death Portrait, Painting, Peru
The Brown Madonna

Reiss, Winold
Date:
ca. 1925
Medium:
pastel
Tradition:
Christian
Place of Origin:
United States
Repository:
Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, Tennessee
Subject:
Virgin Mary
Keywords:
Virgin Mary, African American, Mother, Jesus Christ
True Portrait of Saint Dominic

Pini, Carlo
Date:
1946 CE
Medium:
marble
Tradition:
Dominican
Place of Origin:
Bologna
Repository:
Convento Patriarcale di Santo Domenico
Subject:
Saint Dominic
Keywords:
True Portrait, Sculpture, Saints