"Objects of Devotion" explores the ways in which art supported religious practice in different times and places. Objects ranging from small-scale works of personal nature, such as Byzantine pilgrim ...

Alabaster production during the Middle Ages centered on the making and selling of finely decorated, gilded and colored sculpture to churches, nobles, and owners of private chapels. More common ...

Whether we realize it or not, at every moment we stand devoted to something—something which we cherish above all others. It may be money, a job, a person, an ideal, or our own comfort, but whatever it ...

Join Menil curator Kristina Van Dyke and Rice associate professor of art history Linda Neagley as they discuss the relationship between art and the divine in conjunction with the exhibition, Objects ...

Religion has never been simple in the United States, and there's a lot more to the stories we learned in school. Objects Of Devotion: Tracing Religion In Early America With guest host Noel King. There ...

This past semester, the students in Art History seminar “Displaying Devotion” considered issues raised by the medieval alabasters in Object of Devotion.The objects chosen reveal that devotion is a ...

After spending just a few minutes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spectacular "The Splendor of Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)," I noticed that I had begun to speak in a reverential whisper ...

Tom Sachs has launched his fourth solo exhibit at the Sperone Westwater gallery in New York City. Titled “Objects of Devotion,” the immersive showcase will highlight an extensive array of Sachs’s ...

The museum’s exhibit Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción, on long-term display, traces the history and influence of religious art forms in the santero tradition during the 18th and 19th ...

The subtitle for this engrossing work is also the name of the first religion-oriented exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. This landmark study of the role of ...