This particular technique is rare, only found in vases painted in Sophilos'workshop and on wooden panels painted in the Corinthian style in the 6th century BC . Sophilos also painted one of the rare chalices ( a variety of goblet ) and created the first surviving series of votive tablets.
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Beside 68 oil on canvas works by Tripo Cocolia ( a 17th-century baroque painter from the eastern Mediterranean coast ), on the church walls there are 2, 500 golden and silver votive tablets which people from the Kotor Bay area donated to the church, in order to avoid various human disasters.
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In the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Crotone there is a section housing the findings from the sanctuary of Apollo Aleus at Cir?Punto Alice : some Doric capitals of the temple, an antefix with a disc portraying a Gorgon from the acroterium, votive tablets, a matrix of an antefix, and fragments of an archaic statuette of a young man in limestone.
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He is best represented at the Louvre, which owns his two famous votive tablets for the Sainte Chapelle, each consisting of twenty-three plaques, signed L . L . and dated 1553; " La Chasse ", depicting Henry II on a white horse, Diane de Poitiers behind him on horseback; and many portraits, including the kings by whom he was employed, Marguerite de Valois, the duc de Guise, and the cardinal de Lorraine.
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It may further be said that the well-known words of Horace ( " Satires ", ii . 1, 33 ), in which he characterizes the vivid portraiture of his life, character and thoughts, which Lucilius bequeathed to the world, " " quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis ", " ( " Whereby the whole life of the old ( great ) man may be laid out as upon a votive tablet " ) lose much of their force unless senis is to be taken in its ordinary sense which it cannot be if Lucilius died at the age of forty-six.
