A similar iconography and presentation of four or more figures receiving a blessing or communion from a fifth is known in Byzantine and Georgian art (“The Communion of the Apostles”). It is a frequent motif of contemporary Byzantine frescoes and in the rare fresco from Armenia, in the Church of Kobayr. This fresco was painted by a Georgian fresco artist after the ban on images was lifted in the twelfth century (Thierry-Donabédian [1989], 207). Armenian artist were not completely familiar with this form of art, so Georgian artists were imported.
