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Encaustic panel painting of Madonna and Child, flanked by
Saints Theodore and George and two angels. Perhaps made in
Constantinople at beg. 7th c. A.D. (Sinai: St. Katherine's Monastery).
68.5 x 48 cm. Frontal saints are intense and flatened. The angels are
more impressionistic. The style therefore adapts to the three levels
of reality.
Miniature from the Four Gospels: Saint Mathew. Reims school, 845-882 (New York: Morgan Library M.728 f.14 v.). The Four Gospels were produced under the rule of Archbishop Hincmar of Reims (845-882), Europe's most powerful politician in the ninth century.