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Religious Figurines
Religious Figurines represent many artists’ three dimensional interpretations of
beings of faith.
Religious figurines adorn scores of our front yards and private gardens. Many of the great designer’s works in charcoal and water colors have been made into religious figurines.
Religious figurines are most likely one of the oldest of all figurines. In 1996 Dr. Nancy Serwint gave a lecture in which she discussed the thousands of religious figurines collected from sacred deposits outside a temple, on the island of Cyprus, that dates to about 500 BC. Some of these religious figurines stand more than six feet tall and are the source of important information about religious practices around the Eastern Mediterranean.
Another source of very popular, well loved and highly valued religious figurines are those fashioned after the drawings of Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, known as Berta Hummel, a German Franciscan, born in Massing, Bavaria and lived during the Nazis-Hitler era. The tremendously talented creator of these highly collectible
drawings and sketches from which Hummel religious figurines are drafted, are appropriately called “happy children”. Much to our sadness and dismay Berta died of tuberculosis on November 6, 1946 at the age of 37.
Today the capable Goebel artists still base their religious figurines on her drawings when deciding on the next “M. I. Hummel” authentic work of art.
Among the enormous reserve of religious collectibles in today’s marketplace there are figurines for every conceivable religion known to man-kind. In this inventory of religious material there are figurines of the great Buddha, in sizes from several inches for inside the home to astronomical dimensions for in and around temples.
For the Hebrew faith there are religious figurines of the captivating Dove of Peace, The beguiling Star of David and for Hanukkah the attractive Menorah.
There are figurines of the Holy Mother Mary with outstretched arms small enough for the mantle, to life size for the front yard or an exclusive religious garden and all sizes between. Available are religious figurines of Communion angles and Rosary boxes.
In the massive collection of religious figurines are crosses made of Pewter, hand-carved exotic woods and captivating stone like; marble, alabaster, jade, and even amethysts. There are also magnificent manmade porcelain cross figurines or crosses in 24% lead crystal, bronze, fiberglass, and beautifully painted polyresins or aladastrite.
Religious figurines in the life of Christ range from; the babe in the manger, Christ as a fisherman, washing the feet of disciple, being the good shepherd, praying in the garden, the last supper, reflected in praying hands and as always with outstretched arms and knocking at the hearts door, to Christ on the cross, just to mention a few of the many, many treasured ideas offered.
Religious figurines will give us the inspiration we all need from time to time, and what a beautiful gift for a friend or loved one. Give the gift of religious inspiration to someone you admire and care for by giving the gift of religious figurines. |
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