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By Fredrika Jacobs

ISBN-10: 1107023041

ISBN-13: 9781107023048

within the overdue 15th century, votive panel work, or tavolette votive, started to gather round reliquary shrines and miracle-working photos all through Italy. even though usually disregarded as well known artwork of little aesthetic outcome, greater than 1,500 panels from the 15th and 16th centuries are extant, a sworn statement to their ubiquity and significance in spiritual perform. Humble in either their materiality and magnificence, they symbolize donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic second of drawback. during this booklet, Fredrika H. Jacobs strains the origins and improvement of using votive panels during this interval. She examines the shape, context and practical worth of votive panels, and considers how they created that means for the person that devoted them in addition to how they accumulated that means in courting to different pictures and gadgets inside a sacred house activated by way of practices of cultic culture.

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