Altar candlesticks

(with the coat of arms of Dom Tomás de Almeida, first Patriarch of Lisbon)

Portugal

c. 1730

Silver

c. 68 cm

Light has always been associated with Christian liturgy. Besides its mostly functional purpose of illuminating the place of worship, light has always been linked to a symbolic and ritual dimension. The Old Testament, God instructs Moses to make a seven-branched candelabrum (the Jewish m See more