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In a white marble sculpture, a thin woman stands on a pink marble pedestal. She has a small head, elongated limbs, and a curved posture. Her dress falls around her in elaborate drapery. The work stands against a red wall in a museum setting.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Material Objects

A series of large white and black paintings hangs on the walls of a white gallery space. The white canvases are painted with black lines of differing thicknesses.

The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachtani

Material Objects

The Virgin of Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain

Jeanette Favrot Peterson

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A silver-gilt chalice has a flat bowl on a stem engraved with trefoil leaves and decorated with a twelve-lobed knob. A paten beside it is engraved with Christ in Majesty in a hexafoil reserve and surrounded by spandrals engraved with the Evangelists.

The Dolgellau Chalice and Paten

Allison Stielau

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The Virgin of Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain

Material Objects

A silver-gilt chalice has a flat bowl on a stem engraved with trefoil leaves and decorated with a twelve-lobed knob. A paten beside it is engraved with Christ in Majesty in a hexafoil reserve and surrounded by spandrals engraved with the Evangelists.

The Dolgellau Chalice and Patten

Material Objects

The Cross of Motupe

Emily C. Floyd

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A pale stone slab is covered with low relief carvings. A central niche holds an ethroned figure carved in higher relief among his attendants. A variety of figures and processional scenes surround him as well as abstract vining and floral motifs.

Buddhist votive stele

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In a mural on a cave wall, robed figures gather around a painted tablet. Two larger figures kneel while their attendants hold offerrings. Much of the colorful paint has chipped off the figures.

Ancestor portraits at Mogao Cave 231

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The ornate facade of a cathedral includes a proliferation of large glazed windows, columns, undulating broken pediments, and sculpture. The building also includes two large bell towers that are equally as ornate with an explosion of finials and coumns. .

Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

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Sets of steps are carved all over a massive, grass-covered stone outcropping. Many of the sets are not functional but are decorative motifs.

Amarumarcahuasi

Material Objects

The homemade cover of a book depicts a young man reclining in a row boat as he reads a book. The background of the watercolor and ink illustration is a deep red. A set of red and black beads are affixed to the flat image as a necklace on the man's neck.

Barquitos del San Juan: La Revista de los Niños

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