Eleusa icon
Byzantine Eleusa mosaic
, AthensThe Eleusa (or Eleousa;
In the Western Church the type is often known as the Virgin of Tenderness.Depictions
Such icons have been venerated in the
Western Church where they are called the Madonna Eleusa,[3] or the Virgin of Tenderness. By the 19th century examples such as the Lady of Refuge type (e.g. the Refugium Peccatorum Madonna by Luigi Crosio) were widespread and they were also used in retablos in Mexican art.[4]
In
Theotokos of Vladimir and Theotokos of Pochayiv are well-known examples of this type of icon. Eleusa is also used as epithet for describing and praising the Theotokos
(Virgin Mary) in the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
While the Eastern Church does not generally create three-dimensional religious art, Eleusa-style reliefs and sculptures, as well as icons, have also been used in the Western Church.
The Pelagonitissa is a variant in which the infant Jesus makes an abrupt movement.[5]
Gallery
Eastern icons
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Vladimirskaya -
Fyodorovskaya -
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Western icons
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Cambrai Madonna, Italo-Byzantine, c. 1340, Cambrai Cathedral -
The Virgin Eleousa, Crete, c. 1425, Cleveland Museum of Art -
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Pompeo Batoni, c. 1742
See also
Sources
- ISBN 0-87243-210-6page 203
- ISBN 0-913836-99-0page 85
- ISBN 88-370-2755-9page 54
- ISBN 0-8263-2324-3. pp. 93–94.
- ISBN 9780892368457.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eleusa.
- Byzantium: faith and power (1261–1557), an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Eleusa icons
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