Imagination all compact: tavolette and confraternity rituals for the condemned in renaissance Italy: Larry J. Feinberg traces the history of the ideas that lay behind tavolette, devotional images held up to the faces of condemned men as they were led to execution.

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He cannot imagine how his life will end. Looking up from the cold floor he at first finds little comfort in the small painted image before him, held at the end of a black sleeve. But it is the responsibility of the brothers of the confraternity, who have brought the condemned man to this place of vigil, to attend to him with compassion and prepare him for the events of the next hours. The gentle brothers pray for him, sing penitential psalms, and assure him that Christ's own suffering will bring him salvation. Resolutely, the comforters keep his attention focused on the picture of ...

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