Icon, Byzantine. Artist: Unknown.

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Icon, Byzantine. Ivory panel; portrays the Virgin Hodegetria gesturing to the Christ Child who sits on her left arm, holding a scroll in his left hand and blessing with his right; the Hodegetria ('she who leads') was the most popular iconographic type of Virgin and Child. Dimensions: height: cmwidth: 12 cm

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Size: 5428px × 7230px
Location:
Photo credit: © Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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