Christ Pantocrator (Sinai)

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Painting · c. 550 · Probably Constantinople; kept at Sinai · Europe

One of the oldest icons: a 6th-century encaustic that survived Iconoclasm in the Sinai desert

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Style: Byzantine art — Gold mosaics and a heaven-like dome: the church as paradise, the icon as a window to eternity
Century: 6th century

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