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ICONS OF THE ARAB-BYZANTINE MOTHER OF GOD

Icon Melkite "Hodighitria", 17-18 ° S., Crete

The most beautiful Byzantine-Arab icons are probably those made by the School of Aleppo, the 17 ° and 18 centuries. It is noted in some traits presqu'enfantins faces, symbol of innocence, characteristic of these icons. The School of Aleppo but virtually disappeared, with few exceptions, to be replaced by a more Westernized tradition, the confines of Crete.

Many icons are particularly revered in turn become prototypes giving birth to other icons. The original has disappeared and can often be traced only with copies . Such is the case of the icon Hodighitria. The differences between one type of icon to the next are often small: there is a change of hand position, the tilt of the head or the gaze direction of one or Another person represented.

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: Arab-Byzantine icon , Online
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