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Icon nb 57
Size : 28 x 24 cm.
Linden board
Gilded halo. Egg tempera.
Already present in Byzantium in the 8th century, the icon of the Mother of God breastfeeding signifies that the incarnate Son of God communes with all humanity through the milk of his Mother.
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