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  • Record Number: 29001
  • Author(s)/Creator(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.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- Painting Heresy Hussite Movement Iconoclasm Icons Jasna Gora Czestochowa Poland Mary Virgin Saint and Child in Art
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Europe
  • Century: 14-15-16
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  • Year of Publication: 2006.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 02666286