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In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are extant, a testimony to their ubiquity and importance in religious practice. Humble in both their materiality and style, they represent donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic moment of crisis. In this book, Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels in this period. She examines the form, context and functional value of votive panels, and considers how they created meaning for the person who dedicated them as well as how they accrued meaning in relationship to other images and objects within a sacred space activated by practices of cultic culture.

Painting --- Christian special devotions --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Votive offerings --- Panel painting, Italian --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christianity and culture --- Art and popular culture --- Ex-voto --- Peinture sur panneau italienne --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Christianisme et civilisation --- Art et culture populaire --- History --- Histoire --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Popular culture and art --- Popular culture --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Symbolism in art --- Church decoration and ornament --- Italian panel painting --- Ex-votos --- Offerings, Votive --- Sacrifice --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion