Byzantine Mosaic Icon with the Virgin Eleousa

Illustration

Prolet Decheva
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 01 August 2024
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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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