Место издания:G. Oprescu Institute for Art History Bucharest
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Аннотация:The present study focuses on a particular aspect of votive portraits in Moldavia, namely, on a group of founders’representations of the late-15th – early-17th centuries, where ktetors are depicted either holding scrolls with prayers or being accompanied by patron saints holding such scrolls. It examines some artistic and rhetorical techniques applied in the creation of these images, in order to shed light on the interaction between the depicted personages and their beholders, and to understand the role of characters’ placing and postures, as well as of texts in medieval votive compositions. The paper also publishes a corpus of Slavic inscriptions included into these compositions. Finally, it deals with two main aspects of such representations, namely, with the texts of prayers written on the scrolls and the iconographic motif of scrolls held by founders or by the saints accompanying them. For a better understanding of the function of these texts and images, the study considers possible sources and comparative material for both, the texts and iconographies.