Dom Sylvester HOUÉDARD, hodegetria 260171, 1971

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Ink typed on paper

29.6 x 21 cm

Prinknash Abbey, England 1971.
Annotation: The constructivist image of this piece was formed by typed red and blue, dashes and underlines. Wikipedia: A Hodegetria (Greek literally: "She who shows the Way" or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to Him as the source of salvation for mankind. In the Western Church this type of icon is sometimes called Our Lady of the Way. The most venerated icon of the Hodegetria type, regarded as the original, was displayed in the Monastery of the Panaghia Hodegetria in Constantinople, which was built specially to contain it. Unlike most later copies it showed the Theotokos standing full-length. It was said to have been brought back from the Holy Land by Eudocia, the Empress of Theodosius II (408-50), and to have been painted by Saint Luke. The icon was double-sided, with a crucifixion on the other side, and was "perhaps the most prominent cult object in Byzantium."The original icon has probably now been lost, although various traditions claim that it was carried to Russia or Italy. There are a great number of copies of the image, including many of the most venerated of Russian icons, which have themselves acquired their own status and tradition of copying.

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The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, Miami, Florida

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Ora et lege (Pray and Read), Educational and Cultural Centre, Broumov Monastery, 25 June - 24 September 2023
Typestracts, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 26 May - 14 July 2017, London, UK

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Dom Sylvester HOUÉDARD British, 1924-1992

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