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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7548647, member: 110504&quot;]This will be familiar to lots of people, but it&#039;s too good to leave out.&nbsp; The Christ Pantocrator mosaic in the Hagia Sophia, dated (from the caption in Wiki Commons) as late as c. 1280.&nbsp; I find it compelling for the combination of neo-Gothic naturalism, suspended in a wider, unmistakably Byzantine ethos.&nbsp; Not to mention a medium which was relatively seldom used in the contemporary West.&nbsp; To a resonant point that [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER] made somewhere else, it&#039;s as if the artist was saying --a la Picasso-- &#039;<i>See</i>?&nbsp; We can do this <i>any </i>time we <i>want</i>!&#039;&nbsp; (...If it was earlier in this thread, Sorry, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], I didn&#039;t check!)[ATTACH=full]1302398[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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