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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

The Annunciation

Tanner, Henry Ossawa
Date:
1898 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, oil painting
Tradition:
African Methodist Episcopal
Repository:
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Subject:
Annunciation
Keywords:
Painting, Virgin Mary
The Vale of Rest

Millais, John Everett
Date:
1858-1859 CE
Tradition:
Protestant
Repository:
Tate Gallery, London
Keywords:
Painting, Mendelssohn, Monastic, Death, Pre-Raphaelite, Mortality
The Awakening Conscience

Hunt, William Holman
Date:
1853 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, oil painting
Tradition:
Protestant
Repository:
Tate Gallery, London
Keywords:
Spirituality, Painting, Sexuality, Morality
Virgin of Mercy (Madonna della Misericordia)

Martini, Simone
Date:
1300-1344 CE
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Chianti
Repository:
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, Siena, Italy
Subject:
Virgin Mary
Keywords:
Painting, Virgin Mary, Protection, Mercy
Saint Mary of Mercy (Santa Maria della Misericordia)

Piero della Francesca
Date:
1445-1460 CE
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Sansepolcro
Repository:
Museo Civico Sansepolcro, Italy
Subject:
Virgin Mary
Keywords:
Painting, Confraternity, Protection, Mercy, Virgin Mary
No. 5/No. 22

Rothko, Mark
Date:
1950 (dated on reverse 1949) CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, oil painting
Repository:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords:
Minimalism, Abstract, Painting
Work

Brown, Ford Madox
Date:
1852-1863 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, oil painting
Place of Origin:
Manchester
Repository:
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Keywords:
Painting, Pre-Raphaelite, Morality, Thomas Carlyle, Labor
The Resurrection of Christ

Piero della Francesca
Date:
1463-65 CE
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Roma
Repository:
Museo Civico Sansepolcro, Italy
Subject:
Resurrection
Keywords:
Christ, Apostles, Death, Sleep, Painting
The Resurrection of Christ

Raphael
Date:
ca. 1502 CE
Medium:
oil paint, wood, oil painting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Repository:
São Paulo Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Subject:
Resurrection
Keywords:
Christ, Apostles, Painting, Angels
Doubting Thomas

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
Date:
1601-1602 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, oil painting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Repository:
Bildergalerie, Potsdam, Germany
Subject:
Doubting Thomas
Keywords:
Touch, Painting, Christ, Apostles, Resurrection, Saint Thomas
Chora Church Anastasis

Date:
14th century CE
Tradition:
Orthodox
Place of Origin:
Istanbul
Subject:
Anastasis
Keywords:
Hell, Christ, Salvation, Adam and Eve, Resurrection, Mural
Freedom to Share

Moore, Frank C
Date:
1994 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, glass, wood, oil painting
Place of Origin:
New York
Repository:
Private Collection.
Keywords:
AIDS, Painting, Norman Rockwell, Mortality, Medicine, Illness