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Architecture and Mosaics in the Middle Byzantine Empire

<em>Theokotos and Child</em>, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey.

Theokotos and Child, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey.

This image, in which the Virgin Mary sits on a throne with the Christ Child, is believed to be a reconstruction of a sixth-century mosaic that was destroyed during the Iconoclasm.

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    "Hagia Sophia Interior Virgin 2007."
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