In the article, the author introduces her readers to a text by Jack Liberius, which may provide a further argument that the views of contemporary scholars of modern art do not, for the most part, coincide with how people in the 17th century perceived this phenomenon. It turns out that votive, endowment and donation images with lay people can be treated as images of the face, as a reminder to God to deign to take care of the person in question, but also as a commitment by the person to God to worship him constantly.