Abstract
During the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in Florence there was a growth in the production and acquisition of small religious paintings for use in prayer in the home.1 Simultaneously, there was an increase in the availability of devotional literature, spiritual writings, and sermons composed for laypeople.2 How did the Florentine layperson of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries combine word and image in a private ritual whose purpose was to lift the mind to God? In considering that question, I will refer to the diary, or Ricordi, of Giovanni Morelli (1371-1444), a merchant who was enrolled in the Arte della Lana.3 Mo-
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