 The increasing reluctance of the art of the West to use "tituli" was perhaps because so few people could read them in the Early Medieval period, and later because they reduced the illusionism of the image.Instead a system of attributes, objects identifying popular saints, was developed, but many such figures in Western art are now unidentifiable.This reluctance affected the choice of scenes shown in art; only those miracles of Jesus that were easily identifiable visually tended to be shown in cycles of the "Life of Christ".