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| Encaustic panel painting of Madonna and Child, flanked by Saints Theodore and George and two angels. Perhaps made in Constantinople at beg. 7th c. A.D. (Sinai: St. Katherine's Monastery). 68.5 x 48 cm. Frontal saints are intense and flatened. The angels are more impressionistic. The style therefore adapts to the three levels of reality. http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ebyzantine/index.html |