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Architecture and Mosaics in the Middle Byzantine Empire
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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hagia_Sophia_Interior_Virgin_2007.JPG
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