Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. In ad 730 the Byzantine Emperor Leo III forbade the use of icons within the empire. Empress Theodora restored their use in 843. This icon celebrates the ëTriumph of Orthodoxyí over iconoclasm. It shows the empress (top left) and her son, Emperor Michael III, with saints and religious leaders. On an altar is an image of the Virgin Hodegetria ('she who shows the wayí), which was believed to have been painted by St Luke from life. About 1400 Egg tempera, gesso, woo
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