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Christ Pantokrator
A frontal image type of Christ as “Ruler of All,” often represented blessing and holding a Gospel book.
- Figures
- Christ
- Visual grammar
- Gospel Book, Blessing Gesture, Directed Gaze
Icon Atlas · relationship-driven browsing
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BIU004 turns the 12 source-backed icon-type records into a dedicated Atlas with five navigational families, direct graph lenses, comparison-ready profiles, and explicit trails into figures, scenes, visual grammar, materials, sacred space, places, objects, history and transmission.
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2 sources
Virgin Hodegetria
A widespread Virgin-and-Child image type associated by name and tradition with the Hodegon monastery in Constantinople.
- Figures
- Virgin Mary, Christ, Saint Luke
- Visual grammar
- Hodegetria Indicating Gesture, Scroll, Blessing Gesture
- Places
- Constantinople
1 source
Virgin Hagiosoritissa
A praying Virgin type shown turning toward Christ in intercession, associated with the Holy Soros tradition.
- Figures
- Virgin Mary
- Visual grammar
- Raised Hands in Prayer, Three-Quarter Intercessory Pose, Directed Gaze
1 source
Deesis
A composition joining Christ with the Virgin and John the Forerunner in intercession.
- Figures
- Christ, Virgin Mary, John the Forerunner
- Visual grammar
- Hierarchical Scale, Central and Flanking Figures, Throne
- Materials & making
- Ivory
2 sources
Virgin Eleousa
Virgin-and-Child type emphasizing intimate physical and emotional contact; the Met’s miniature mosaic example dates to the early 1300s.
- Figures
- Virgin Mary, Christ
- Visual grammar
- No direct edge yet
- Materials & making
- Miniature Mosaic
1 source
Virgin Blachernitissa
Virgin shown in an orant pose with the Christ Child in a medallion over her chest, named after a famous image associated with Blachernai in Constantinople.
- Figures
- Virgin Mary
- Visual grammar
- Orans Gesture, Orans Gesture
2 sources
Enthroned Virgin and Child
Virgin and Child represented enthroned, a format found in both portable images and monumental apse programs.
- Figures
- Saint Theodore, Virgin Mary, Christ
- Visual grammar
- Throne, Hand of God, Throne
- Sacred space
- Apse
2 sources
Christ Emmanuel
Youthful image of Christ used within Byzantine iconography; surviving examples appear in steatite and in Marian compositions.
- Figures
- Christ
- Visual grammar
- No direct edge yet
- Materials & making
- No direct edge yet
1 source
Christ Pantepotes
Christ identified as “Overseer of All” in a complex Late Byzantine steatite icon surrounded by scenes and choruses of saints.
- Figures
- Christ
- Visual grammar
- No direct edge yet
1 source
Acheiropoietos
Category of sacred images believed to have been produced by divine agency rather than ordinary human making.
- Figures
- No direct edge yet
- Visual grammar
- No direct edge yet
- Materials & making
- No direct edge yet
1 source
Mandylion
Famous acheiropoietic tradition centered on a cloth believed to bear an image of Christ’s face.
- Figures
- Christ
- Visual grammar
- No direct edge yet
- Materials & making
- No direct edge yet
1 source
Biographical Icon
Post-Iconoclastic icon format placing a central saint portrait within surrounding scenes from that saint’s life.
- Figures
- Saint Nicholas
- Visual grammar
- No direct edge yet
- Materials & making
- No direct edge yet
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