Andachtsbild
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thumb|upright=0.9|Veil of Veronica by the Italian Baroque painter [[Domenico Fetti]]
Andachtsbilder (singular Andachtsbild, German for devotional image) is a German term often used in English in art history for Christian devotional images designed as aids for prayer or contemplation. The images "generally show holy figures extracted from a narrative context to form a highly focused, and often very emotionally powerful, vignette".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andachtsbild” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.