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| The Mother of God with the Child, 6 century, Kiev originally Mount Sinai |
icon above the Virgin and Child dating from the 6th century, and thus pre-iconoclast, is interesting from the standpoint of style and is, with the icon of Saint Peter's Mount Sinai icon the closest representations of late antiquity currently known.
The Virgin and Child is on the left arm, as the future "Hodighitria" but it is also right, his body slightly turned toward him, while his head is oriented in the opposite direction, non-conforming attitude Graphic rules still somewhat fluctuating in the 6th century . Finally his face to the sensual mouth, almost laughing, is not really that of the Mother of God, yet it emanates from him a kind of radiation that we have no difficulty to see in this picture a authentic icon.
Tania Velman, research director of Byzantine art at the National Center for Scientific Research
in "The first icons "
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