Provenance of Some Iconographie Patterns of Christ’s Passion in Medieval Wall Painting in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Abstract

In the depictions presented in the article the gesture of raised hands expresses either Mourning or the feelings connected with Entombing, whose image is supplemented by the gesture of raised hands from the scene of Mourning, among others. The main source of illustration in these works seems to be Italian art, present in Western European painting. Its basis are iconographic solutions of the Byzantine art.