The Origins and Significance of Votive Painting
The Origins and Significance of Votive Painting

Summary/Abstract: Votive painting is a theme inspired by some monetary emissions issued in some cities of Asia Minor conquered by the Romans. The pieces relate to the conquest of important fortress-cities as Smyrna, Perinthos, Tarsos, Nicomedia. In Byzantium, the theme of the votive painting adopts the idea that the autocratic emperor is Lord of the terrestrial church, but in the same time an ordinary mortal. The illustrations show the ruler in a kneeling or standing position founded in both the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

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