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Votive offerings

Votive offering to a saint or to a divinity in Christianity or in ancient religions

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Images of Votive offerings

185 images from works
  • A woman who has fallen down a well being rescued by a man praying to Sansovino's Virgin and Child. Watercolour.
  • A child in bed, its parents praying to the Madonna del Parto. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: a man and two members of his family praying to Christ crucified for the health of another relative in bed. Oil painting.
  • The parents of José Lopez Romero commending him to Christ and to St Joseph. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, c.1840.
  • Two men and a woman praying for the health of a child. Oil painting by an Italian painter, c.1890.
  • Votive picture: a woman praying before a painting or tapestry of the Virgin and Child in glory. Oil painting.
  • Votive picture: a boy falling under the wheel of an ox cart. Oil painting.
  • D.G., ill in bed, praying to Christ and the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows, 1859. Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 1859.
  • A man praying to the Virgin as he is run over by a horse-drawn cart carrying textiles. Oil painting.
  • Two women attending a man in bed and appealing to Sansovino's Virgin and Child. Oil painting by an Italian painter, 1888.
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Images about Votive offerings

29 images from works
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • M0015412: Large sculpted foot made of porphyry, Roman, 1st Century
  • Relief: offering to Archinos to Amphiaraos
  • An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.
  • Belgium: pilgrims praying at a shrine of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Engraving, 191-.
  • M0015222: Votive bust of Asclepius, c.2nd century A.D.
  • An altar, surmounted by a statue of the Virgin surrounded by votive offerings; in the foreground, sick or troubled people praying. Woodcut, 16--.
  • Votive offering: foot.
  • Saint Antony of Padua. Line engraving by S. Sondermayr.
  • The Castalian spring at Delphi; the cavities in the rock are for votive offerings. Etching by F.R. Hay, 1813, after E.D. Clarke.
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Gods, Greek
Christian art and symbolism
Italy
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Votive offerings in art
Folk art
Rome
Sculpture, Greco-Roman
Roman World