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Horseshoe Crosses and Muddy Boots: Material Culture and Rural Masculinity in Cowboy Churches

Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba

Article

A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America

Rachel McBride Lindsey

Collection

Chalkware

Sally M. Promey

Collection

Martin Puryear, Desire

Bryan Wolf

Article

A gem-encrusted gold altar is a squat rectangular box with a white-speckled porphyry top. Archangels, apostles, and Christ are shown within a colonnade depicted on the object's sides.

Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude

Crispin Paine

Article

A busy painting captures a profusion of 19th century figures in one crowded section of the sunny street. Men dig trenches or toss back drinks. Women grasp babies, hand out pamphets, hold baskets of flowers, and stroll by with parasols.

Ford Madox Brown, Work

Tim Barringer

Article

Bertel Thorvaldsen, Christus (Christ)

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Peter Ahr

Article

A stone plinth holds a sculptural group of two stone, male figures. One concerned-looking robed man crouches down to adjust the cloths on the head of a supine male figure. The lying man has a bare chest and a pained expression.

The Vincent and Mary Markham Monument

Annette Stott

Article

A dark-skinned man wearing a white t-shirt holds a large, broken mortar transformed into an art object. It is painted orange with a large eye depicted at center. Other smaller eyes cover the object's surface. Neat, white text also covers the piece.

Kwame "Almighty" Akoto, The Supernatural Eyes of God

Birgit Meyer

Article

A wooden object consists of three crucifixes stacked vertically. A cast metal, Christ figure is affixed to each crucifix. Their hands are outstretched, their waists covered with loin cloths, and their ribs visible.

Kongo Triple Crucifix

Cécile Fromont

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