In 1667, Gian Lorenzo Bernini—the most celebrated Italian artist of his day—received a papal commission to design ten marble angels carrying the relics of the …
This dissertation investigates the Virgin of Le Puy, a famous Black Madonna sculpture destroyed in 1794. It uses inventories, pilgrim badges, liturgical texts, written description …
Most banners, flags, and other types of portable images, once prestigious signs of identity for the groups that carried them in processions, have disappeared through …