Mosaic

Museum number:
8-9113
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21080009113
Accession number:
Acc.4150
Description:
Mosaic, Virgin Mary; Face in three-quarter view; wearing mantle over her head; golden halo behind, golden mosaic ground*; “MP” upper left “OY” upper right; green, black, pink, etc. Tessarea; on plaster; max. width 42.3 cm, height 39.5 cm. Material and techniques: Tessarea (stone); *gold applied with some kind of lacquer on top of the glass instead of being within a glass sandwich - see David Wright letter of January 28, 1985; Removed from wood frame in which it had been placed.
Donor:
Edward M. Nagel
Collection place:
Volos, Thessaly, Greece
Verbatim coll. place:
a church in Velos
Culture or time period:
Byzantine (395-1453 AD)
Person depicted:
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Mosaics (visual works)
Department:
Classical Mediterranean
Comment:
Ex. coll. Zumbulakis, Athens
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mosaic, accession number 8-9113, described as Mosaic, Virgin Mary; Face in three-quarter view; wearing mantle over her head; golden halo behind, golden mosaic ground*; “MP” upper left “OY” upper right; green, black, pink, etc. Tessarea; on plaster; max. width 42.3 cm, height 39.5 cm. Material and techniques: Tessarea (stone); *gold applied with some kind of lacquer on top of the glass instead of being within a glass sandwich - see David Wright letter of January 28, 1985; Removed from wood frame in which it had been placed.

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