The sanctuary is famous for the fact that houses the image of the Cristo de La Laguna, very devotional image around the Canary Islands.
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Devotional images act as the centerpiece during a ritual or ceremony and are often used as mediums through which one can offer prayers or make requests.
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The works range from multi-paneled altarpieces to devotional images the size of a passport, and from gold-threaded tapestries to carved boxwood rosary beads.
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The devotional images are arranged thematically according to the guises in which the Magdalene is most often presented : sinner, penitent, witness, contemplative and muse.
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An early example of a type of devotional image showing Jesus alone is a small panel by Barna da Siena of 1330-1350 in the Frick Collection.
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He was trained in Valencia, Spain, and gained fame with his polychrome wooden statues, whose exquisite curves reveal a deep knowledge of Gothic devotional images.
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In the Met is a little oval painting of her, wan and doe-eyed, the kind of devotional image you tend to pass by, eyes glazed.
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In Late Gothic settings, altarpieces and devotional images were customarily crowned with gables and canopies supported by clustered-column piers, echoing in small the architecture of Gothic churches.
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As devotional images, many of them were processed during Holy Week with other pasos ( elaborate religious floats adorned with sculptures depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ ).
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Van Hoy made garland paintings with other painters, such as the Flemish �migr?painter Jan Anton van der Baren, who painted the flowers while Van Hoy painted the devotional image.
