Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

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BOOKAgents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203

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Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answered, as well as the physical manifestation of hopes and anxieties. Agents of Faith explores votive offerings in the context of material culture, art history, and religious studies to better understand their history and present-day importance. By looking at what humans have chosen to offer in their votive transactions, this volume uncovers their most intimate moments in life and questions the nature, role, and function of one of the most fundamental aspects of the relationship between people and things—the imbuing of objects with sentiment. Encompassing exquisite works of art as well as votives of humble origin and material, with objects dating from 2000 B.C. to the twenty-first century, the beautiful illustrations and wide-ranging text expose the global reach of votive practices and the profoundly personal nature behind their creation.

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Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Print publication date October 2018 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300222968

EISBN 9780300254679

Illustrations 390

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List of illustrations

Stick animal, probably a cow
Ex-voto to Saint Francis of Assisi
Synagogue alms or charity box (tzedakah)
Votive crown of Visigoth King Recesswinth
Leaf from a Beatus Manuscript: the Opening of the Fifth Seal
Mosaic, detail, from the Dome of the Rock
Love padlocks at Le Pont des Arts
Woman tying ritual ribbon to sacred tree
Dennis Edward Wilkinson POW / MIA bracelet
Pilgrims at the Church of the Beautiful Virgin at Regensburg
Foot on a stand with a votive inscription by Isidorus
Votive offerings and candles
Eye votives
Badge showing a vulva as a pilgrim with pilgrim's hat, rosary, and staff topped with a phallus
Figurine Votive
Retablo of Juan Luna for rescue from an assault when he was mistaken as a bandit
Statue of a bound goat
Votive relief of Archinos
High altar
Corridor with painted votive panels
World War II votive painting
Ex-votos on the walls of an open air Ayyanar shrine
Ex-voto representing its newlywed donors
Round seal
Reliquary in the shape of a stupa
Gospel book
Enthroned Virgin and Child
Enthroned Virgin and Child, radiograph
Monza ampulla
Glass ampullae from the treasury at Monza
Pittacia strips
Notula
Bobbio ampulla, reverse
Yadnya Kasada festival
Four-spoked wheel
Double ax-head
Standing female deity
Offerings (Tsa Tsa) in a cave
Votive offerings for the god of Mount Merapi
A pregnant woman holds a wax figure depicting a pregnant abdomen before she throws it into the flames
Relief/anatomical votive
Leg of a donkey votive
Wounded hand votive
Lungs votive
Lungs votive
Votive painting offered to Christ as apothecary
Votive painting of a woman's successful operation
Votive painting of a man's successful operation
Uterus votive
Swaddled child votive
Votive painting of a woman with a woman's illness, possibly referring to menstruation
Toad votive
Two oxen in double yoke votive
Façade, detail
Votive painting of Thateüs Schmair Röscher for the wellbeing of his cattle and horses
Prisoner votive
Man and woman votives
Man votive
Sow with piglets votive and cow votives
Votive panel of Duke Charles V of Lorraine encampment at Todtmoos, St. Blasien, Germany
Votives
Circular medallion, decorated with a menorah, shofar, lulav, and a Greek instription
Amulet
Shaddai with Stars of David
Shadai'ot
Spine votive
Human figure votive
Sacellum D. Virginis, et Praecipui Ornatus
Votive boy in presentation case
Encased wax figures at Catholic parish church and pilgrimage church to the Most Holy Trinity, Gößweinstein
House votive and mold
Dental arches, tongue, and ear votives
Man and woman votives
Man and woman votives
Man and woman votives
Food offerings in a temple for the festival of Annakut during Diwali
Votive set
Traditional food ofrenda
Sake barrels
Rest of the Holy Family on the Flight to Egypt
Votive painting of a woman's possession
Roman tablet with a votive inscription
Ex voto of Tommaso Inghirami, Fallen under an Ox-Cart in Rome
Madonna and Child with the Donor Pietro de'Lardi, presented by Saint Nicholas
Votive painting: intercession in a fall from a ladder, appealing to St. John of Capistrano
Votive painting of miraculous appearance of the type Christ seeking his Clothes
Ex Voto: Recovery from an Illness
Votive painting of a farm robbery
Votive painting of an intercession in an imprisonment with appeal to Saint Leonard
Votive painting for sick cattle
Madonna and Child between Two Angels, with a Kneeling Donor, His Wife and Child
Madonna dell'Arco
Wounded arm and leg votive
Votive plaque with eyes
Eyes votive
Votive panel with two pairs of eyes
Cow and pig votives
Sailing ship votive
Sailing ship votives
Votive painting of a breech birth
Votive painting of Cav. Giuseppe of Pedara for protection during an aerial bombing offered to Saints Alfio, Filadelfo, and Cirino
Votive painting of Carlo Busiello for protection during warfare appealing to the Madonna dell'Arco and Madonna del Carmine
Apothecary shop
Votive painting offered by Orlando di Lasso
Prosthetic legs
Retablo of Maria de la Luz Casillas and children for a successful operation
Room of Miracles (Sala dos Milagres)
Relief from the Asklepieion, Athens
Ex-voto, Sala dos Milagres, juxtaposed photographs: boy (left) and man (right), mouths wide open
Madonna del Parto, in situ with votives
Ema (koema)
Market stalls at the entrance to the Shrine of Moulay Brahim
Fátima Sanctuary
Retablo of Josefina Rivera for safety in a bus accident
Our Lady of Lourdes in the Cave
Wax figures and body parts
Great Promise of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, certificate for devotion on first Fridays
Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
Reciting I pledge allegiance, public school
Tourists mourning at grave of Elvis Presley
White ghost bicycle parked to commemorate a cyclist who died in a traffic accident
Shrine, Union Square, New York City
Leg votive dedicated to St. Hiermann
World Trade Center Building 6
Snoopy doll with letter
Inscribed money
9/11 Memorial, Ground Zero, World Trade Center
Storage for catalogued items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Bottle of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, with note
Two bottles of 33 beer
Bottle of Olde Bourbon with note
US military C ration cans containing peach jam, cinnamon nut roll, and B-2 unit (crackers, cocoa, and beverage powder)
Unopened packs of Lucky Strike and Peace cigarettes
Index card with four-star rank badge of General Peter Pace
Basketball with the insignia of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade, and note
Model of a prisoner of War (POW) camp watchtower
Navy Patrol Boat, River (PBR)
Sock doll named Worry, with letter from Kim to Ed
Display case
Toy Corvette with artificial bouquet, North Carolina shot glass, and photograph of LCpl H. Coleman Wright Jr.
Figurine of a Rough Collie made by Ian J. Franks (KIA 03/23/1968)
Assemblage in honor of Jerry Elliot (MIA 01/21/1968)
Customized Harley-Davidson Police Special motorcycle
Drawing by Michael Ray Peddle (KIA 07/05/1970), and letter
Assemblage dedicated to the 677 US Navy corpsmen who died in Vietnam
Two poems dedicated to Stephen F. Chute (KIA 05/18/1968) from his mother
Flag of the Republic of Vietnam
American flag in case
Banner signed by twelve children from the Chesapeake, VA, YMCA
Relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant
Bullock Figurine
Sacrificial victim led by attendants, frieze from the Parthenon
Model of a sheep's liver indicating the seats of the deities
Relief dedicated to the healing hero Amynos by Lysimachides
Hera and Zeus, detail from Parthenon frieze
Kore statue
Fragment of a head
Statuette of a temple boy
Statuette of a nude youth
Head of a youth with wavy hair
Votive bust of a young man
Right foot on sole
Votive deposition featuring Phoenician-Cypriot terracottas from Ayia Irini
The Lenormant Athena
Lindos temple chronicle stele
Votive painting of Oswald Dienstl from Schwäbisch-Gmünd
Votive painting of Hans Jungwirth from Passau
Votive painting of Maria Salverin
Votive painting of Caspar Weigl Heilmiller
Votive painting of Ursula Gewald
Votive painting of Ludwig Klingkhamer
Votive portrait of prince-elector Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria
Votaries and offerings at the shrine of St. Stephen, Weihenstephan
Visitation with Jean du Clercq, abbot of Saint-Vaast in Arras
Altar with the Virgin of Altötting and votive gifts, Gnadenkapelle interior
Ambulatory of the Gnadenkapelle
Leg votive
Left hand votive
Miraculous rescue of a man broken on the wheel
The Virgin of Altötting receiving offerings
Votive panel of Thomas Hank
The wax workshop at Hauptplatz 6 in Pfaffenhofen, Germany, on the River Ilm
Votive image of the Niederscheyern pilgrimage church
Miracle Books
Wax figures in Baroque clothing
Wax votive of an infant with its wooden mold
Wax votive of a toad with its wooden mold
Wax votive of a horse with its wooden mold
Pouring warm wax into a wooden mold
Pouring warm surplus wax out of a wooden mold
Opening a wooden mold
Loosening a wax figure with a blade
Wax figures before trimming and finishing
The Hipp Wax Workshop and Votive Museum in Pfaffenhofen, Germany
Portrait sculpture of a female royal donor holding a portable shrine
Roundel with the Goddess Hārītī
Goddess and Attendants
Goddess with Weapons in Her Hair
Hindu worshippers celebrating their annual immersion festival held in the month of Masi (February–March)
Devotee displaying a banner painting illustrating the Four Great Locations of the Buddha's Life
Relief depicting a stupa with enclosure railing and a tree shrine (bodhighara)
Stupa no. 2, Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh
Molded seal depicting the shrine house for the Buddha image at Bodhgaya, with enclosure railing, and monastery beyond
Sealing depicting the Buddha at the Mahabodhi temple, Bodhgaya
Model of the Mahabodhi temple
Model of the Mahabodhi temple complex at Narthang monastery, central Tibet
Eight Great Events Stele
Stupa railing pillar relief depicting relic procession
Reliquary adorned with the four Buddhas of the Present Age and attendant disciples
Platform panel depicting stupa veneration, with reliquary displayed, flanked by tree shrine and Wheel of Law
Reliquaries in the shape of a stupa
The Procession of Buddha's Tooth, Kandy, Ceylon
Inscribed Reliquary, Donated by King Indravarman
The Ramaka Casket; Inscribed Reliquary, Donated by Ramaka
Reliquary
Line drawing of a Bhojpur Stupa no. 2 relic containers
Reliquary
Votive plaque depicting the Bodhisattva Maitreya flanked by a stupa and Wheel of Law
Seal molding dedicated to the black goddess
Seal
Round seal depicting two bodhisattvas attending a Buddha-stupa
Molded plaque depicting a mandala of the eight bodhisattvas
Model stupa
Votive plaque (tsa tsa) depicting a stupa
Seal molding with enthroned Buddha
Clay relief tile with Buddhist Triad (Sanzon senbutsu)
The Miracle of Shravasti
Seal molding with twelve-armed Avalokiteśvara Amoghapāśa
Stele with stupa relief
Palm-leaf manuscript painting
Relief panel depicting the bodhisattva Manjuśri meditating on the Perfection of Wisdom text
Book cover of an edition of the Buddhist text Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, detail
Portable Hindu diptych in linga form
Interior of portable Hindu diptych in linda form, depicting Shiva and Parvati
Panel of a portable diptych shrine
Panel of a portable diptych shrine, interior
Portable Buddhist diptych, closed
Portable Buddhist diptych, open
Portable Buddhist diptych, showing Buddha with radiate halo and mandorla
Portable Buddhist triptych dedicated to Buddha, with attendant bodhisattvas and disciples
Candi Jago plaque of the Bodhisattva Amoghapāśa
Akbar's pilgrimage to Ajmer
Funeral Procession
Lamp Stand with Cartouches and Medallions
Star-shaped tile
Cross-Shaped Tile Fragment
Mihrab made for the Imamzada Yahya at Varamin, Sha'ban
Pilgrims circumambulating the cenotaph of Imam Reza in the shrine at Mashhad in northeastern Iran
Pulpit (Minbar)
Votive Tablet (Hilya)
Fragment of a Processional Standard ('Alam)
Standard
Votive strips of cloth decorating the saxaul tree outside the shrine of Muhammad ibn Zayd
Votive offerings on a set of doors, probably from a public water fountain (saqqā-khā na)
Lock
Hand
Male Figure with Strips of Hide (Nkisi)
French Congo. Old Fiote Chief at Tuba (Kouilou River)
Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)
Ceremonial Drinking Horn
Ritual Vessel: Horse with figures (Aduno Koro)
Figure (Boli)
Altar Staff (Asen)
Twin Figure: Female (Ibeji)
Headdress: Male Antelope (Ci Wara)
Headdress (Ci Wara): Female Antelope
Afrique Occidentale–Danseurs Miniankas–Fétiches des Cultures
Friction Oracle: Crocodile (Itoom)
Ifá Divination Tray (Opon Ifá)
Staff with a Figure Representing the Deity Eshu
Vessel
The Virgin of Guadalupe
Votive painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe saving shipwrecked sailors
Woman holding four candles
Woman facing altar with Black Christ
Ex-voto of Josefa Peres Maldonado
Retablo of Manuela Ibarra for recovery from a gangrenous leg
Retablo of a man appealing to Santo Niño de Atocha
Man writing note in the salon de retablos
Retablo of María Trinidad Alcazar
Retablo of María Aguilar for the restoration of failing eyesight
Retablo of José Cruz Soria for safe passage to Mexico from the U.S. San Juan de los Lagos
Retablo of Paula Martinez
Children dressed up for procession
Retablo of San Camilo de Leliz
Indulgence for donation of alms toward the building of a church to the Virgin of Guadalupe
Christ Carrying the Cross
Santuario del Señor de Chalma
Milagros seller at the market of Otatitlán
Ex-voto eyes
Milagros
Milagros
Ex-voto head
Nuestra Señora de Monserrate de Hormigueros
Votive offerings to Nosso Senhor dos Passos
Group of votive heads
Woman with a mastectomy
Boy with smallpox votive
Girl with prosthetic boots votive
Heart votive appealing to St. Francis
Cross with votive offerings, along a path to the statue of Padre Cícero
Table of contents with Yves Klein, Ex-voto dédié à sainte Rita de Cascia
Tommy's Illness/Mexico City
Womb
Tongue and Hand
Untitled
Pistol with shredded barrel
Votive painting of a hunting accident
Votive painting of a man for the well-being of his livestock
Miraculous Appearance of the Christ Child in Filmoos
Beehive votive
Sow with piglets votive
Votive painting of Michael and Maria Sammereir of Anham and of Joseph Kreiber
Votive painting of Andreas Läichinger for regaining his health
Votive painting of a man with a blazing heart
Hand in oath votive
Ear votive, with text and photograph
Votive painting of a naval accident, appealing to Our Lady of Mercies
Votive painting for the rescue of a ship at sea appealing to the Madonna and Child
Eyes and forehead votive
Eyes votive
Retablo of Jesus Ramos for healing wounds from an assault
Retablo of a man sentenced to death
Retablo of Ramona Ortega for the health of Gregorio Rocha Mexico
Retablo of Perfecto Martines for the restoration of his wife's health after suffering a blood hemorrhage
Retablo of Rosalio Surquero for recovering from injury from a charging bull
Retablo of Juana Camarillo for her child's recovery from illness
Retablo of a sick man appealing to San Camilo de Leliz
Head votive
Head votive
Head votive with a long neck
Head votive
Head votive
Votive key
Votive painting of a woman in prayer
Pig votive
Woman's torso votive
Scrotum votive
Wooden molds for casting a left leg votive
Molds for casting a woman votive and votive
Molds for casting a jumping horse votive and votive
Dedicatory plaque
Dedicatory plaque
Dedicatory plaque
Shaddai with Stars of David
Forearm votive
Abdomen votive
Male figure votive with a side wound
Arm and hand with truncated thumb votive
Bent arm and hand votive
Breast with tumor votive
Standing [male?] figure with wounds votive
Ribcage votive
Feet votive
Torso with incised ribs votive
Urn votive in the shape of a head
Head of a youth
Female head
Veiled head (capite velato) of a youth
Toad votive in frame
Votive painting of a woman with lung disease, appealing to the Madonna and Child
Lungs, heart, and liver votives
Lungs votive
Sword, with note
Glove
Bottle of Jim Beam Whiskey
Budweiser cans, with notes
San Miguel Pale Pilsen beer bottle containing a letter
Baseball
Assemblage dedicated to the fallen from Paramus, New Jersey, highlighting Eleanor Grace Alexander (KIA 11/20/1967)
Assemblage comprised of a plaque, mannequin head with M1 helmet; shell casings, US flag and POW-MIA flag
Candle
Handwritten note on rubbing sheet
Clodeon Atkins (MAJ, USA, RET) POW bracelet, with note
Trent Richard Powers POW/MIA bracelet, with letter
James Edward Butler POW/MIA bracelet, with letter
Sgt. Curtis Cline POW/MIA bracelet, with letter
John Jack Heaphy Fellowes POW/MIA bracelet
Buddha figure
Ceramic smudge pot
Buddha figure
Prayer book for Jewish personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States
Temple menorah, with US military tape
Yarhzeit candle
Commemorative dog tags and P-38 can opener

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Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

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Director’s Foreword

Susan Weber

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

~I am pleased to inaugurate the quarter-century celebration of the founding of Bard Graduate Center with the exhibition, Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, on a subject worthy of marking the occasion. Votive practices infuse inanimate objects—whether familiar or mysterious, personal or communal—with spiritual significance,...

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Of Votive Things

Ittai Weinryb

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Faith is a common aspect of all human societies. Faith makes us believe, wonder, and follow certain rituals—praying, wearing certain clothing, fasting, growing beards, or shaving hair. In some cultures, faith leads believers...

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Ittai Weinryb

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

~Throughout Agents of Faith, dates maybe assumed to be Common Era (CE) unless otherwise indicated. In the figure captions as well as the checklist entries, locations refer to the place made and/or place of deposition of votive objects, when known. Catalogue numbers in the figure captions refer to objects on the exhibition checklist.

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Part I: Agents of Faith

Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Part I: Agents of Faith

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One: Place, Shrine, Miracle

Jaś Elsner

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

A vibrant passage from the French writer Gregory of Tours, written in the second half of the sixth century, tells us—from a very Christianocentric point of view—much about the wide range of votive deposition across the social and economic spectrum at a particular and transformative moment in late antiquity.

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Jaś Elsner

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.3-25

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.001

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsChristian art and symbolismShrinesRelics

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Terrestrial Gateways to the Divine

Alexandra Beuscher and Darienne Turner

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Caches of votive offerings are commonly found at geological sites situated between mundane human spaces and cosmologically separate or divine realms. Devotees searching for divine intervention send offerings to deities through these terrestrial “gateways,” located within caves, at the bottom of rivers and lakes, and in volcanic craters (fig. 1a.1)....

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Alexandra Beuscher and Darienne Turner

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Related print edition pages: pp.26-31

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.002

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Chapter subject tags:Caves--Religious aspectsVotive offeringsRites and Ceremonies

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Two: Votive Materials: Bodies and Beyond

Ittai Weinryb

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

A young pregnant woman, visiting the Sanctuary of Our Lady at Fátima, Portugal, is about to deposit a wax offering made in the image of her own pregnant self into the fire pit at the shrine—while she touches her belly with one hand, her other hand separates the votive offering from her body...

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Ittai Weinryb

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.003

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsBodies--PartsHealing in artSculpture--technique

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Edible Offerings: Food in Votive Culture

Michael H. Dewberry and Alexander Ekserdjian

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

The verses of Macedonius (ca. 500–560), a Roman consul, were intended to evoke an idealized agricultural lifestyle...

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Michael H. Dewberry and Alexander Ekserdjian

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Related print edition pages: pp.60-65

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.004

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsFasts and feasts--ShintoFasts and feasts--Hinduism

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Three: Public and Private Dimensions of Votive Giving

Christopher S. Wood

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

So many offerings made to the pagan and Christian shrines were homely and unsightly....

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Christopher S. Wood

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.005

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsDevotion in artMiracles in artChristian art and symbolismPanel painting, European

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Four: Memory and Narrative: Materializing Past and Future in the Present

Fredrika Jacobs

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Several years had passed since Gian Giacopo Grandone so dramatically entered the Sanctuary of the Madonna dell’Arco just beyond the gates of Naples;...

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Fredrika Jacobs

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.006

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsMadonna dell'ArcoBodies--partsHealing in art

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Five: Votive Giving Today

David Morgan

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Religious votive offerings have not ceased in the modern era. Many millions make pilgrimage every year to important churches in Mexico, Spain, Portugal, and France, to Santiago de Compostela, Fátima, Lourdes, Medjugorje, and thousands of less familiar shrines (fig....

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David Morgan

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Related print edition pages: pp.109-127

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.007

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--ArtMemorial rites and ceremonies

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Votive Giving at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Anne Hilker and Alyssa Velazquez

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a polished stone wall that bore only the names of war dead, opened to both controversy—and a flood of objects (see fig. 5.6). Maverick from inception, its development had followed no traditional narrative: Yale architecture student Maya Lin, a novice, won a competition for its design; private dollars built it; and its face lined an earthen ridge dug well away from the line of historical memorials elsewhere on the Capitol...

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Anne Hilker and Alyssa Velazquez

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Related print edition pages: pp.128-137

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.008

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsMemorial rites and ceremoniesVietnam War, 1961-1975--Monuments--Washington (D.C.)Souvenirs (Keepsakes)Memorial rites and ceremonies

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Part II: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

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Part II: Votive Objects in Time and Place

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Six: Clever Devices and Cognitive Artifacts: Votive Giving in the Ancient World

Verity Platt

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

In his Description of Greece, the second-century travel writer Pausanias recounts a revealing anecdote about a votive dedication in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi:

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Verity Platt

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.009

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsSculpture, GreekAthena (Greek deity)--CultAnimal sacrifice in artHuman anatomy--Models

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Seven: Lob und Danck: On the Social Meanings of Votives in German Pilgrimage Culture

Mitchell B. Merback

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Under the conditions of mass culture, past and present, new social media offer the individual novel ways to appear in public and express agency in the world...

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Mitchell B. Merback

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.159-181

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.010

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsPanel painting, GermanMary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--ArtPilgrims and pilgrimages

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Votive Wax: The Hipp Workshop in Pfaffenhofen

Nina Gockerell

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

A wax and honey workshop, likely the last in all of Germany, remains in the small Lower Bavarian town of Pfaffenhofen on the River Ilm, thirty-one miles (50 km) north of Munich. Centuries ago all towns had such workshops to provide their populace with baked goods, honeywine, and candles. There is evidence that this particular shop has stood prominently for the...

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Nina Gockerell

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.011

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsSculpture--TechniqueWax-modeling

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Eight: In Search of Blessings: Ex-Votos in Medieval Greater South Asia

John Guy

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Objects that are infused with sanctity, holiness, boon-granting powers abound in the Brahmanical and Buddhist worlds of South Asia. Through the agency of Buddhism, exceptional among the early religions of the region for its proselytizing ambitions, many of these objects became an...

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John Guy

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.012

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsGoddesses, IndicArchitecture, BuddhistBuddhism in artBuddhism--History

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Nine: Votive Giving in Islamic Societies

Sheila Blair

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

For Muslims, God is omnipotent, the ultimate wielder of power, who is described in the opening sura (chapter) of the Qur’an as Lord of the Worlds, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy, and Master of the Day of Judgment.Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, ed. Jane Damen McAuliffe (Leiden: Brill, 2001–2006), s.v. “Power and Impotence,” by Alexander Knysh. This translation of the sura is taken from the recent one by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, available on Oxford Islamic Studies Online but slightly adapted for American spelling and word order. Many Muslims also accord the power of intercession (shafā‘a) to God’s angels and the Prophet Muhammad, and some Muslims extend it to other prophets and saints, chosen people who came to be known as God’s “friends” (awlīya, sing,...

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Sheila Blair

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.225-239

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.013

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsPilgrims and pilgrimagesCeremonial objectsIslamic shrines

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Ten: Action in Form: African Art as Voiced Engagements

Suzanne Preston Blier

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

Fon native and historian Paul Hazoumé, from what is today the Republic of Benin, authored not only the first Fon...

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Suzanne Preston Blier

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.014

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsKongo (African people)--Rites and ceremoniesDivinationWood sculpture, Africanceremonial objects

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Eleven: Votive Giving in the New World

Diana Fane and Fatima Bercht

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

This chapter addresses the participation of Latin America’s indigenous peoples in Christian practices and ceremonies by examining their votive offerings to the newly introduced Christ,...

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Diana Fane and Fatima Bercht

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.255-283

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.015

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Chapter subject tags:Latin America--Religious life and customsNarrative painting, MexicanVotive offerings

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Twelve: The Contemporary Ex-Voto: Reenchanting the Art World?

Mechtild Widrich

Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place

In the December 1980 issue of the Italian design magazine Domus, French critic Pierre Restany made public what is perhaps the best-known contemporary votive artwork: Ex voto a Santa Rita by Yves Klein, dedicated in 1961 in the convent of Santa Rita da Caseia in Umbria (fig. 12.1)...

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Mechtild Widrich

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.285-295

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00203.016

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Chapter subject tags:Votive offeringsModernism (Art)Ono, Yōko, 1943-Smith, Kiki, 1954-Bodies--Parts

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Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

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Ittai Weinryb (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

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~This project has been developed at the Bard Graduate Center, and it would have not been possible without the vision of its director, Susan Weber, who together with the director of the gallery, Nina Stritzler-Levine, and Dean Peter N. Miller have created a fertile ground for broad and comparative thinking on the material world. I would like to thank the lenders to...

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