A Hodegetria, or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to him...
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Hodegon Monastery (redirect from Monastery of the Panaghia Hodegetria)
The Hodegon Monastery (also Monastery of the Panaghia Hodegetria or Monastery of the Hodegoi) in Constantinople was allegedly founded by Saint Pulcheria...
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Shown in the icon's composition are important figures such as the Virgin Hodegetria, her child Jesus, and eleven saints and martyrs associated with the Triumph...
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Chapel of Our Lady of Itria (redirect from Church of Our Lady of Hodegetria)
Chapel of Our Lady of Itria, also known as the Church of Our Lady of Hodegetria (Maltese: Knisja tal-Madonna ta’ Hodegitria), is a small Roman Catholic...
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the icons of Orthodox Christianity. The Virgin Mary is shown as the "Hodegetria" version (meaning "One Who Shows the Way" or “Οδηγήτρια” in Greek). In...
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Blachernitissa, etc., or descriptive of the depicted posture, as in Hodegetria, Eleusa, etc. The term Madonna in the sense of "picture or statue of the...
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During the last siege of Constantinople in 1453, the Icon of the Theotokos Hodegetria, considered the protector of the City, was brought to Chora in order to...
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The Church of the Virgin Hodegetria (Russian: Церковь иконы Божией Матери "Одигитрия" or Свято-Одигитриевская церковь) is a Russian Orthodox church in...
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icon. The icon belongs to a family of images of the Theotokos known as Hodegetria (Greek: Όδηγήτρια, "she who leads the way") after the prototype from Constantinople...
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Archbishop Danilo II (s. 1324–37) built the Church of the Holy Mother of God Hodegetria and the Church of St. Nicholas on the south side. In front of the three...
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Μονή Γωνιάς), Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia or Monastery of Panagia Hodegetria (Μονή της Οδηγήτριας) is an Orthodox monastery located 1 km north of Kolymvari...
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of Wisdom, enthroned Virgin with Child, especially in Romanesque art Hodegetria, one of the most important of the many types of Eastern Orthodox icons...
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Eastern church, the Mandylion, also known as the Image of Edessa, and the Hodegetria, and several Russian icons, and in the West the Shroud of Turin, Veil...
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Suharekë, Duhël, Mushtishtë, Popolan, Reçan, and churches of Virgin Hodegetria, St. George, Holy Trinity, St. Nicholas, among others. The settlement...
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Damascus. It depicts Theotokos (Virgin Mary) with young Jesus in the hodegetria position, and is covered with a riza. On the back of the icon is the painting...
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Judgement. Noteworthy is also a mosaic depicting a Madonna with Child (of the Hodegetria type) in the middle apse (11th century). The most important artistic element...
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Greece. The abbot Pachomius incorporated into it the small church of the Hodegetria, or "Aphentikon", as the monastery's catholicon. The church was reconstructed...
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have painted pictures of the Virgin Mary and Child, in particular the Hodegetria image in Constantinople (now lost). Starting from the 11th century, a...
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independence from the Russian rule. The fate of Vilna icon of Theotokos Hodegetria (Theotokos of Vilna) that for two centuries (1715—1915) was located in...
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for historical reasons. The church owns an icon of the Virgin of the Hodegetria type, which originally lay in a Dominican church in Caffa, Crimea. The...
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accrue to the Hodegetria icon, suggesting the stories have become conflated; in terms of composition the Tikhvin icon is of the Hodegetria type. Some art...
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Vigilant) Hagia Skepe (the Sacred Protection) Hagia Zone (the Sacred Girdle) Hodegetria (the Leader) Hypermachos Strategos (the Defending General) Kataphyge (the...
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Hodegetria church in Vyazma is one of three major churches with three tents placed in a row....
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Vladimir (c. 1130) Andrei Rublev, Trinity (1411 or 1423–1425) Dionisius, Hodegetria of Smolensk (c. 1500) Athanasius of Moscow, Blessed Be the Host of the...
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palace in Blachernae were the walls; Byzantium's most sacred icon, the Hodegetria, was cut into four pieces and destroyed. The most monstrous events took...
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dispersed discontentedly to nearby venues where they drank toasts to the Hodegetria icon, which had, according to late Byzantine tradition, interceded to...
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Mariampol, a suburb of Bakhchysarai in Crimea. The name was derived from the Hodegetria icon of the Holy Theotokos and the Virgin Mary. Subsequently, in 1780...
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medieval Serbian Orthodox churches, including the notable Church of Virgin Hodegetria, which was destroyed in 1999. The village used to have a mixed Albanian-Serbian...
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Spanish Virgin and Child with Saint Anne influenced ultimately by Greek "Hodegetria" icons The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne from Oaxaca, Mexico St. Anne...
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hagiou Lazarou), and the Small Gate of the Hodegetria (μικρὰ πύλη τῆς Ὁδηγητρίας, mikra pylē tēs Hodēgētrias), both named after the respective monasteries...
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