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1. Record Number: 28624
Author(s): Kabala, Irene,
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Title : Dressing the Hodegetria in Czestochowa [In the late fourteenth century Pauline brothers took custody of a painting of the Virgin and Child at their monastery on Jasna Góra in Poland. The Virgin holds the Child with her left arm and points toward him, a motif known as the Hodegetria or "She Who Points the Way" named for a famous prototype which allegedly belonged to the Hodegon Monastery in Constantinople and dated to the pre-iconoclastic era. In point of fact the motif became popular in the 11th century and was given a legendary origin. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry , 22., 3 ( 2006):  Pages 275 - 284.
Year of Publication: 2006.