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The figures of the Virgin Byzantine hagiography is a religious art
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According to Fotis Kontoglou the first iconographic type introduced with integrated presence of the Virgin is the Our Lady of Heave
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Byzantine figures of the Virgin The Christians honour the mother of God and humans more than any other holy figure They have drawn her in many poses holding her child Depending on the pose she has given a variety of different names Virgin praying is every picture of Virgin Mary holding little Christ
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Virgin Mary sweet kissing When she hugs him and their cheeks touch
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Virgin Mary of passion
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Virgin Mary praying When she is standing with her hands open
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Virgin of Mercy
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Madonna or enthroned Virgin when she sits on the throne of passion, on her left and right there are two angels holding the cross of martyrdom, the lance and the sponge with the vinegar
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The Virgin who leads When she holds Christ and their faces are apart while her right hand is in prayer position
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Crying Virgin Pieta
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Virgin Mary breast feeding When she breast feeds Jesus EL GRECO The holy family and Santa Anna 1590-95 127x174 εκ. Toledo hospital Tavera
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Domenicos was trained as an hagiographer. In Crete the painters and hagiographers combined the Byzantine idiom with the west influence making portable pictures and creating the so called Cretan School The Virgin Mary as it appears in the work of El Greco Luke the evangelist is painting Virgin holding baby Jesus. 1560-1567 Mpenaki museum Athens 41χ33cm
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He reached Italy in 1567 where he became student of famous Italian artists and created some of his most characteristically art icons like the Modena Triptych which includes themes from Greek and Roman mythology
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A work of Sidiropoulou christin Oga Adela Koutsoula Christin
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