Painting on cupola, Chora Church, Constantinople [Istanbul, Turkey], (1928). 'About on cupola of the annexe Kahrijedjami (Chora Church) was rebuilt by Maria Dukaena, the mother-in-law of Alexios [I Komnenos] (d. 1118)'. After Alexander Rudell. Plate XLII, fig 97, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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