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		<title>Christ Pantokrator Mosaic Icon at the Bargello</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christ Pantokrator mosaic icon in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, dated to the third quarter of the twelfth century, compresses into a panel measuring only 54 × 41 cm an artistic language usually associated with the vast golden surfaces of Byzantine churches. Christ appears half-length and almost wholly frontal against a gold ground, holding an open Gospel book in his left hand while raising his right in a gesture of blessing, the palm turned outward towards the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christ the Merciful Mosaic Icon: Komnenian Art in Berlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Christ the Merciful mosaic icon in Berlin is one of the rare large-scale portable mosaics to survive from Middle Byzantine art. Measuring 74.5 × 52.5 cm and preserved in the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst at the Bode-Museum under inventory number 6430, the panel presents Christ in the familiar half-length Pantokrator type: frontal, grave, visually commanding, yet softened by an expression that seems more inward than severe. The work has been dated to the first half of the twelfth century, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Panagia Faneromeni Mosaic in Xylokastro: The Enthroned Theotokos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Panagia Faneromeni mosaic in the sanctuary apse of the Church of Panagia Faneromeni at Xylokastro presents the Theotokos enthroned with the Christ Child between the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, all set against an expansive gold ground. Its immediate effect comes from order: a strong central axis, bilateral balance, frontal figures and a restricted chromatic range in which deep blue, purple, green and gold carry almost the entire composition. The church itself is a modern building conceived in deliberate dialogue [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Saint John Chrysostom Mosaic at Hosios Loukas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Against an unbroken field of gold, Saint John Chrysostom appears with the concentrated severity characteristic of the eleventh-century mosaic decoration of the katholikon at Hosios Loukas in Boeotia. The anonymous mosaicist presents the Church Father frontally, enclosed within a shallow niche and identified by a Greek majuscule inscription divided on either side of his halo. The monastery&#8217;s digital collection dates the work to the eleventh century and locates the saint among the mosaic busts placed in the small niches beneath [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hosios Loukas Hodegetria Mosaic: The Virgin and Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The position of the Christ Child gives the Hosios Loukas Hodegetria mosaic its first distinction: he rests on the Virgin&#8217;s right arm, creating the dexiokratousa variant of one of the most enduring Marian types in Byzantine art. Executed during the first half of the eleventh century for the katholikon of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, on the western slopes of Mount Helicon in Boeotia, the composition occupies the eastern lunette of the south cross-arm, above the zone of marble revetment. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hosios Loukas Washing of the Feet Mosaic: Humility in Byzantine Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the narthex of the katholikon at the Monastery of Hosios Loukas, the Washing of the Feet unfolds across a broad field of gold with an economy characteristic of monumental Middle Byzantine art. The mosaic, executed in the eleventh century and occupying the northern end of the narthex, represents Christ washing the feet of Peter before the Passion. Its Greek titulus, Ο ΝΙΠΤΗΡ, identifies the episode directly. The subject comes from John 13:1–17, in which Christ rises from supper, lays [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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