Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by function]
7. religious visual works

Narrower term/s

• icons (devotional images)[+]
  • arcā
• Andachtsbilder
• Buddhas (visual works) [NP]
• Stations of the Cross
• devotional pictures
• hagiographic prints
• holy cards
• ruixiang
• pratirūpaka
• pratimā

Anotations

Scope note:

Images, either two-dimensional pictures or three-dimensional, used in private piety or other religious purposes in a place of worship or home, intended as recipients of prayer or aids to meditation; distinct from images that serve the liturgy or are primarily didactic.