In the 1990s there was a growing and renewed interest on the practice of clothing images of saints after, as Richard Trexler put it, the negligence demonstrated towards it by art historians until then. In 2018, following the publication of new and unprejudiced studies about it, the presence of two dresses belonging to statues of the Virgin Mary in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” testified to the impact clothed images had on fashion creators and, according to David Morgan, the Church’s ritual and performative life. While focusing on the miraculous image of Nossa Senhora da Lapa from Quintela, Portugal, this article aims to acknowledge the many roles played by its clothes and jewels, assessing the complexity of this phenomenon and aiming for a wider understanding of how the faithful engaged with devotional sculpture.

在1990年代，正如理查德·特雷克斯勒（Richard Trexler）所说，直到那时艺术史学家对此一直表现出疏忽，对圣徒的服装形象习俗引起了越来越多的兴趣。在2018年，关于它的新的和不偏颇的研究发表之后，大都会艺术博物馆的展览“天体：时尚和天主教的想象力”中出现了两件属于圣母玛利亚的衣服，这证明了穿衣服的图像的冲击力。大卫·摩根（David Morgan）说，这是教会的仪式和表演生活。专注于Nossa Senhora da Lapa的神奇影像 来自葡萄牙昆泰拉的文章旨在承认其衣服和珠宝所扮演的许多角色，评估这种现象的复杂性，并旨在更广泛地了解忠实者对虔诚雕塑的参与。