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Icon of The Virgin Blachernitissa

Image credit: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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The Virgin Blachernitissa, sometimes also called Platytera, is so named because the iconographic type originated in the church of the Blachernai at Constantinople. She was portrayed in an orant posture, with a half figure of the 'pre-eternal' Christ suspended in a medallion in front of her breast. The names of the figures are inscribed in Greek. The red background is characteristic of painting produced in the Near East where this panel may have originated.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Icon of The Virgin Blachernitissa

Date

17th C

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 16.7 x W 13 cm

Accession number

AN1869.14

Acquisition method

Presented by Rev. G. J. Chester, 1869

Work type

Painting

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