Adoring Angel
A devotional angelic figure shown kneeling, bowing, praying, or otherwise directing reverence toward an altar, Eucharistic tabernacle, crucifix, or holy figure.
Sculpture
Mater Dolorosa
The Sorrowful Mother: the Virgin Mary represented grieving over Christ's Passion, sometimes alone and sometimes with the symbolic swords of her sorrows.
Baptismal Font
A basin or vessel used for the sacrament of baptism, frequently carved in stone and enriched with figures, animals, foliage, or theological symbolism.
Censing Angel
An angel shown swinging or holding a censer, linking heavenly worship with the liturgical use of incense.
Immaculate Conception
A Marian iconographic type representing Mary as conceived without Original Sin, commonly shown standing on a crescent moon amid clouds, angels, and stars.
Holy-Water Stoup
A basin placed near a church entrance to hold holy water for the faithful, ranging from simple stone vessels to elaborate sculptural wall pieces.
Agnus Dei
The Lamb of God: Christ symbolized as a lamb, often haloed and carrying a cross or banner, a frequent motif in church relief and liturgical art.
Assumption of the Virgin
The Catholic subject of the Virgin Mary being taken body and soul into heavenly glory, commonly surrounded by angels above an empty or flower-filled tomb.
Antependium
A decorative frontal covering or panel on the front of an altar, historically made in textiles, precious metal, carved wood, stone, mosaic, or relief.
Angel
A spiritual messenger represented in Christian art as a humanlike heavenly being, conventionally winged and frequently used in architectural, devotional, and funerary sculpture.