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AEGEAN ISLANDS, 18TH CENTURY
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THE MOTHER OF GOD OF KYKKOS
AEGEAN ISLANDS, 18TH CENTURY
This icon reproduces one of the four images of the Virgin and Child, painted by the Evangelist Luke and donated in the 11th century, by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos to the Royal Monastery of Kykkos on Cyprus. As a result, this type of the Mother of God, with Christ wearing a short tunic and the Virgin being covered by a red veil over her maphorion, became known as the Virgin of Kykkos. The image was venerated beyond Cyprus and icons with this subject were painted also in Asia Minor and the Aegean islands, and they even influenced the production of Western portraits of the Virgin and Child. Stylistic features, such as the large eyes and the blue-white triangular edge of the veil, as they appear on this icon, are encountered on panels made on the Aegean islands.
12¼ X 8¾ in. (31.25 x 22.25 cm)
AEGEAN ISLANDS, 18TH CENTURY
This icon reproduces one of the four images of the Virgin and Child, painted by the Evangelist Luke and donated in the 11th century, by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos to the Royal Monastery of Kykkos on Cyprus. As a result, this type of the Mother of God, with Christ wearing a short tunic and the Virgin being covered by a red veil over her maphorion, became known as the Virgin of Kykkos. The image was venerated beyond Cyprus and icons with this subject were painted also in Asia Minor and the Aegean islands, and they even influenced the production of Western portraits of the Virgin and Child. Stylistic features, such as the large eyes and the blue-white triangular edge of the veil, as they appear on this icon, are encountered on panels made on the Aegean islands.
12¼ X 8¾ in. (31.25 x 22.25 cm)