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Byzantine style. 146 × 106 cm, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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Icon from Lipie, Poland
Kept in the Historical Museum in Sanok, Poland

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Scanned from a book about icons from Balkans, see Wikimedia Commons

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Fresco, 99 x 85 cm (size of detail) Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

Maestà, the Italian word for "majesty", designates an iconic formula of the enthroned Madonna with the child Jesus , whether or not accompanied with angels and saints. The Maestà is an extension of the "Seat of Wisdom" theme of the seated "Mary Theotokos", "Mary Mother of God", which is a counterpart to the earlier icon of Christ in Majesty, the enthroned Christ that is familiar in Byzantine mosaics.

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Hodegitria: She who shows the way
Theotokos: Mother of God

Technorati Tags: icon, hodigitria, 1200, byzantine, face, mother of god, theotokos

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Tempera on panel covered with canvas, 107 x 57.5 cm,Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

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St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai Egypt
More icons: Josephine Puget