Icons and crucifixes play an important role in the Christian faith and form an important element of liturgical rites, especially in processional rites of worship. Depictions of the Virgin and Child, present in the inventories of many churches, speak of the spread and importance of the cult of the Virgin, especially after the Council of Ephesus in 431. During the 13th century, the most common iconographic type was the Virgin Glykofilousa. Crucifixes were also an important part of church equipment at that time, but they are rarely preserved today. However, despite the small number of preserved copies from the 13th century, both in Europe and in our region, today we still gain an insight into certain aspects of the artistic and spiritual climate of that time. A dozen Romanesque paintings of the Virgin and Child and several crucifixes have been preserved in Dalmatia, especially in the area of Zadar and Split. In 13th century painting around the area of central Dalmatia, the works of the so-called Romanesque Painitng School of Split stand out the most. It was first defined by Cvito Fisković after he noticed certain similarities in certain works of art from Split, among which were Crucifixion of the Poor Clares in Split and the paintings of the Virgin and Child from the church of St. Stephen on Sustipan (Our Lady of Sustipan) and the Virgin and Child from the church of Our Lady of Belfry (Our Lady of Belfry), which were later joined by the painting of the Virgin and Child from the church of Our Lady of Žnjan (Our Lady of Žnjan). Assuming that it is a school and not a workshop, it is possible to add the Virgin and Child from the Hvar Cathedral to the mentioned group of paintings.