"' Our Lady of Prompt Succor "'( ) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a wooden devotional image enshrined in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
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Antonello's earliest documented commission, in 1457, was for a banner for the Confraternit?di San Michele dei Gerbini in Reggio Calabria, where he set up a workshop for the production of such banners and devotional images.
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From the middle of the 14th century, blockbooks with both text and images cut as woodcut seem to have been affordable by prints, mostly in woodcut, made it possible even for peasants to have devotional images at home.
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Comparing the compact size of this work of 11X8 1 / 8 in . to larger, more illustrious altarpieces and large scale frescoes, the " Madonna and Child " is understood to be an intimate, devotional image.
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Garland paintings typically show a flower or fruit garland around a devotional image, portrait or other religious symbol ( such as the Mary prevalent at the Habsburg court ( then the rulers over the Southern Netherlands ) and in Antwerp generally.
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Few public commissions by Sassoferrato exist, and, like Carlo Dolci he seems to have concentrated on producing multiple copies of various styles of devotional image for private patrons, a demand fuelled by the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church.
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On 18 April 2010, when visiting Malta, Pope Benedict XVI donated and placed a Golden Rose in front of the devotional image of Our Lady Of Ta'Pinu which was brought over from Gozo to Malta for this special occasion.
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Garland paintings typically show a flower garland around a devotional image, portrait or other religious symbol ( such as the " Birth of the red rose " ( Staatliches Museum Schwerin ), a collaboration between Ykens and Cornelis Schut.
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As the use of devotional images came to be seen as the " literature of the layman ", Paleotti's goal of the transformation of Christian life through the use of sacred images fostered and promoted Marian devotions including the Rosary.
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The image in art underwent a number of changes of emphasis, while remaining fairly consistent in its basic visual content, and was one of the relatively few medieval metaphorical or allegorical devotional images to maintain a foothold in Protestant iconography after the Reformation.
