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Two sided pendant with the Virgin and Child and John the Baptist

Two sided pendant with the Virgin and Child and John the Baptist





Artist : Anonymous


Date : approx. between 1100 and 1300

Material : Serpentine
Acquisition : Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and bequest of Thomas W. Lamont (1917)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Center
Ground Floor
Item 31 on 80
Objet(s) d'Art
Object of worship

Vitrine : V02

Area related
Byzance

Description   

Byzantine artists often design such icons so that the two sides relate each other. On the front of the pendant, is the Virgin Mary Hodegetria, an icon type in which the Virgin Mary holds the Christ child in her left hand while gesturing toward him with her right. On the reverses, John the Baptist raises his arms as if venerating Christ through the pendant.

Inscribed in Greek : Mother of God, Jesus Christ (abbreviated) - The Prophet John the forerunner.

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