also feature the Deesis. After the development of the full iconostasis screen there was room for a larger "Deesis row" or "Great Deesis" of full-length...

in the central Deësis panels. These panels are flanked by two pairs of images on the folding wings. The two panels closest to the Deësis show singers in...

Pantocrator has no visible throne, but the earlier Deesis does, and at least a single-step dais. The Deesis continues to appear in Western art, but not as...

An example of Byzantine pictorial art, the Deësis mosaic at the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople...

in the Sinai (archived 20 February 2006) The icon Christ Pantocrator at Chilandar Monastery on Holy Mount Athos The Deesis Pantocrator in Hagia Sophia...

VIII Palaiologos in 1261 the Hagia Sophia was restored and a beautiful new Deesis was made on the south gallery. This huge mosaic panel with figures two and...

however, some of the city's monuments were restored, and some, like the two Deesis mosaics in Hagia Sophia and Kariye, were created. Various economic and military...

Gregory the Theologian, 1408 (Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir) Theotokos from Deësis, 1408 (Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir) Some think this may be the work of...

re-furnished for the performance of Orthodox rites, and a colossal mosaic of the Deesis, 5.2 meters in length and 6 meters wide, was installed in its south gallery...

12th-century templon beam shows twelve canonical feast scenes, with the Deesis (Christ enthroned, flanked by Mary and St. John the Baptist) located in...

The Deësis mosaic Mosaic in the northern tympanum depicting Saint John Chrysostom Detail of the Christ Pantocrator mosaic, also known as the Deësis mosaic...

Hutchinson, London, 1967, p. 92. Freeman, Evan (2021). "Hagia Sophia's Deesis Mosaic". Smarthistory Guide to Byzantine Art. Vasiliev 1952, pp. 343–344...

who are supplicating on behalf of those being judged (in what is called a Deesis group in Orthodoxy). Saint Michael is often shown, either weighing the deceased...

Deesis, 17th-century icon. Left to right: Archangel Michael, Theotokos, John the Baptist, Archangel Gabriel (Historical Museum in Sanok, Poland)....

parecclesion. Saint Peter Saint Paul A monumentally scaled mosaic of the Deesis: Christ and the Virgin Mary (without John the Baptist) with two earlier...

Holy Virgin Mary often flank Jesus on either side. The composition of the Deesis came to be included in every Eastern Orthodox church, as remains the case...

Christ Pantocrator, detail of the Deesis mosaic in Hagia Sophia – Constantinople (Istanbul) 12th century...

for the site. The Virgin Orans, c. 1000 Church Fathers Order, c. 1000 The Deesis, 1000 Princely group portrait. South wall of the nave, c. 1000. Sarcophagus...

Byzantine mosaic of the Deesis, 13th century, Hagia Sophia....

Gallery, Moscow (Bruk and Iovleva 1995, no. 21), 'St George, Nikita and the Deesis', a 16th-century icon in the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, (Likhachov,...

Annunciation The Deesis Range of the Annunciation Cathedral The Church Feasts Range of the Annunciation Cathedral The article «“The Deesis painted by Andrey...

– collection of Byzantine icons My World of Byzantium by Bob Atchison, on the Deësis icon of Christ at Hagia Sophia, and four galleries of other icons...

and John the Baptist to his right and left (an arrangement known as the Deësis). Other various biblical figures such as Peter (far left, holding keys)...

traditional role of pleading on behalf of the dead; with John the Baptist this Deesis is a regular motif in earlier compositions. Preparatory drawings show her...

and the Last Judgement. On the wall below there is a thirteenth-century deesis with Christ enthroned between the Virgin and Saint Mark. The decorative...

Mosaic of Christ Pantocrator from Hagia Sophia from the Deesis mosaic....

Gorodets-on-the-Volga (Alexander Nevsky's family) Theophany Monastery, Kostroma Deesis with the Archangels 1180s? Dormition Cathedral, Moscow State Tretyakov Gallery...

gesture of female supplication to Christ when asking for mercy for sinners in Deesis or Last Judgement scenes. A good example is the fresco at S. Agostino in...

Five-panel Deesis row (center), iconostasis in the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow Kremlin by Theophanes the Greek, 1405...

hands clasped in prayer and her face turned towards Jesus. Blachernitissa Deesis Hodegetria Salus Populi Romani formerly in S. Agata in Trastevere, moved...