Historical Figures & Models recreates the people, places, working spaces, and sacred environments of Christian history.
The collection explores not only famous churches and saints, but the real work carried out within the Church: worship, teaching, administration, charity, care for the poor and sick, correspondence, diplomacy, scholarship, building, and the daily responsibilities of priests, bishops, monks, and other members of the Church.
Figures, architectural models, interiors, and sacred art are developed from surviving historical evidence and may be accompanied by short documentary folios with biography, chronology, maps, source material, or records connected to the subject.
The first collection begins with Saint Peter and the world that grew around his life and legacy.
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Cast display figures of apostles, saints, priests, bishops, scholars, missionaries, rulers, soldiers, and other people whose lives shaped Christian history.
Individual figures may include a short documentary folio with biography, chronology, maps, or surviving historical evidence.
First Subject: Saint Peter
Display models of churches, basilicas, monasteries, shrines, tombs, chapels, libraries, offices, and other important spaces from Christian history.
The collection includes both monumental architecture and the working places where clergy worshipped, studied, administered, taught, received visitors, and carried out the daily responsibilities of the Church.
First Subject: St. Peter’s Basilica
Display pieces based on stained glass, mosaics, reliefs, icons, sculpture, inscriptions, and other surviving works of Christian art.
Each piece explores the people, symbols, stories, and historical settings represented in the original tradition.
First Subject: Saint Peter — Stained Glass Study
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