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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

Drain-spout in the Form of a Flying Celestial Figure

Date:
973 CE
Medium:
stone
Tradition:
Shaiva
Keywords:
Water, Monastic, Sculpture
Shaiva Monastery, Chandrehe

Date:
973 CE
Medium:
stone, architecture
Tradition:
Shaiva
Place of Origin:
Chandre
Keywords:
Monastic, Monastery, Architecture
Dead Christ Entombed

Holbein, Hans, the younger
Date:
1521 CE
Medium:
oil paint, oil painting
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Repository:
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung
Subject:
Entombment
Keywords:
Death, Mortality, Entombment, Divinity, Painting, Christ
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

Larkin, Clarence
Date:
1920 CE
Tradition:
Dispensationalist
Place of Origin:
United States
Subject:
Bible
Keywords:
Fundamentalist, Dispensationalist, Bible, Chart, Print, Text
In the Woods

Durand, Asher Brown
Date:
1855 CE
Medium:
oil paint, canvas, oil painting
Place of Origin:
United States
Repository:
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art (95.13.1)
Subject:
Nature
Keywords:
Nature, Transcendentalist, Unitarian, Landscape, Painting
The Supernatural Eyes of God

Akoto, Kwame
Date:
2010 CE
Medium:
paint, painting
Tradition:
Christian
Place of Origin:
Kumasi
Keywords:
Vision, Power, God, Repurposed, Painting, Eyes
Digambar Jina Icon

Medium:
stone
Tradition:
Digambar
Place of Origin:
Blairstown
Subject:
Jina
Keywords:
Meditation, Veneration, Liberation, Cult statue, Sculpture, Jina
Shvetambar Jina icon

Medium:
stone
Tradition:
Shvetambar
Subject:
Jina
Keywords:
Veneration, Ornamentation, Liberation, Cult statue, Sculpture, Jina
Glass Jina eyes

Jadiya, Haricharan Manekchand
Medium:
colored glass, silver gilding, paint
Tradition:
Shvetambar
Place of Origin:
Ahmadābād
Repository:
Private Collection
Subject:
Eyes
Keywords:
Shvetambar, Projection, Meditation, Ornamentation, Vision, Jina
St. John the Evangelist

Medium:
wood, gold leaf, paint, sculpture techniques, polychromy
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Ocongate
Subject:
St. John the Evangelist
Keywords:
Saints, Repurposed, Sculpture
Machu Picchu

Date:
1450s-1460s CE
Medium:
living rock, coursed ashlar, polygonal masonry, stonework
Tradition:
Inca
Place of Origin:
Machupicchu
Keywords:
World Heritage Site, New Age, Royalty, Architecture, Tourism, Inca
The Cross of Motupe (La Cruz de Motupe)

Date:
19th century CE
Medium:
lignum vitae, cloth, silver, metal, ribbon, processions, religious events, pilgrimages
Tradition:
Roman Catholic
Place of Origin:
Motupe
Subject:
Cross
Keywords:
Pilgrimage, Popular Catholicism, Devotion, Wood, Cross, Procession