Byzantine Mosaic Icon with the Virgin Eleousa (Illustration)

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 01 August 2024

Byzantine Mosaic Icon with the Virgin Eleousa — Portable icon of the Virgin and Child of the Eleousa type, the Virgin of Tenderness, miniature mosaic made of many tiny *tesserae* (mosaic stones), set in wood, early 14th century.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Byzantine Mosaic Icon with the Virgin Eleousa

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