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Only about 20 minutes on foot from Maggia, it revealed strikingly colorful floor-to-ceiling Renaissance frescoes telling the story of Mary, as well as a whole series of ex-votos commissioned by locals to honor the Madonna.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

The walls are covered with paintings, mementos, objets trouvés, silver ex-votos, skulls, stones, icons…and the floors, with piles of tottering books.

From Time • Jun. 14, 2016

One wall of the exhibition was devoted to Steinberg ex-votos, pictures depicting miraculous escapes from falling mobiles, firing squads and wobbly airline gangways.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simply because they were meant to be widely distributed�whether as cheap ex-votos or as artists' samples�most of them have been lost.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the ceiling are suspended wax and plaster of paris reproductions called ex-votos of literally every portion of the body—feet, hands, limbs, heads, all portions—the ceiling space is completely covered with these uncanny figures.

From Brazilian Sketches by Ray, T. B. (T. Bronson)