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Record Number:
7973
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Ousterhout , Robert.
Contributor(s):
Title:
The Virgin of the Chora: An Image and Its Contexts [discussion of the mosaic icon of the Virgin in the church of the Chora Monastery in terms of its part in a decorative program that called upon a complex symbolism; also discusses the importance of the Virgin "orans" motif in the related images known as "Blachernitissa," "Episkepsis," and "Platytera"].
Source:
The Sacred Image East and West. Edited by Robert Ousterhout and Leslie Brubaker. Illinois Byzantine Studies IV. University of Illinois Press, 1995. Pages 91 - 109.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Architecture- Religious
Art History- Decorative Arts
Byzantium
Constantinople/Istanbul- Chora Monastery- Church
Iconography
Icons
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Art
Mosaics
Women in Art
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Eastern Mediterranean
Century:
14
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
Seventeen figures. Nine figures show details of mosaics from Kariye Camii. One exterior view of Kariye Camii. One floor plan of Kariye Camii. Three interior views of Kariye Camii showing the decorative program. Two images of the "orans" Virgin with a medallion of the Christ child: Figure Forty-Eight marble icon, Constantinople, eleventh century (now at S. Maria Mater Domini, Venice) and Figure Forty-Nine Gold coin of Zoe and Theodora, 1042. Figure Fifty-Six Virgin "orans" on a coin of Michael VIII Palaeologus.
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1995.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0252020960