Humble Offerings Votive Panel Paintings in Renaissance Italy
By the beginning of the sixteenth century, perhaps as early as 1470, small panel paintings began to appear among the ever-rising mounds of votive objects deposited at sacred sites laying claim to wonderworking images.¹ Known as tavolette votive, or tavolette dipinti, these modest pictures functioned...
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| Published in | Ex Voto p. 140 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Bard Graduate Center
15.01.2016
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| Summary: | By the beginning of the sixteenth century, perhaps as early as 1470, small panel paintings began to appear among the ever-rising mounds of votive objects deposited at sacred sites laying claim to wonderworking images.¹ Known as tavolette votive, or tavolette dipinti, these modest pictures functioned like any other ex-voto.² Existing by reason of a vow made during a moment of crisis and subsequently offered to the saint who intervened to alleviate suffering or avert impending calamity, each ex-voto stood as a material token of remembrance recording a solicitor’s successful appeal to God.³ Nailed to sanctuary walls, suspended from tying rods |
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| ISBN: | 1941792057 9781941792056 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctv12fw8bd.10 |