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Architecture and Mosaics in the Middle Byzantine Empire
![<em>Theokotos and Child</em>, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey.](../../../../../../../../../figures.boundless-cdn.com/14665/full/ophia-interior-virgin-2007.jpeg)
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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