Sentences with phrase «of votive offerings»

The Large Head (before 1911) of Iris might have been broken off a Roman colossus, while a row of miniature plaster legs recalls a display of votive offerings.

I love the idea of a pilgrimage site slowly developing its facilities for people to visit, to live there for a while and to leave their mark — little churches, walls of votive offerings, town squares, guest houses, fountains, murals, presumably coffee shops.

The works are inspired by Milagros — a type of votive offering used in Latin cultures, usually made from cheap metals.

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However, it is in the Eucharistic cult or in the Eucharistic assembly of the faithful (synaxis) that they exercise in a supreme degree their sacred functions; there, acting in the person of Christ and proclaiming his mystery, they unite the votive offerings of the faithful to the sacrifice of Christ their head, and in the sacrifice of the Mass they make present again and apply, until the coming of the Lord (cf. 1 Cor.

We joined the throng of devotees circumambulating the central chedi while other worshippers burned incense and made votive offerings to the plethora of Buddha statues surrounding the chedi.

These new works emerge from her somatic revelations and her study of milagros, sculptural votive offerings used in latin cultures.

Edna (Eddie) Lanieri Votive Offerings and Relics Eddie Lanieri's photographic interest is in the human experience and examination of self through cultural influences, and ritualistic expression.

Moscophouros is a statue of a cow - bearer found in fragments in the Acropolis of Athens, built as a votive offering to the goddess Athena.

Inspired by the tradition of milagros, the votive offerings that are hung in Latin American Catholic churches to invoke protection and healing, Antoni's new work continues her decades - long exploration of the body and its psychological and spiritual dimensions.