Virgin and Child Enthroned – Byzantine Theotokos Statue | 3D Print STL

Mary enthroned with the Child on her lap — the oldest and most solemn Christmas image there is. In 431 the Council of Ephesus gave Mary the title Theotokos, "the one who gave birth to God", and Byzantine artists answered with an image that never changed for a thousand years: the Virgin seated frontally on a throne, the Child upright on her lap, one hand raised in blessing. It filled the apse of Hagia Sophia and thousands of icons after it. This statue carries that composition into three dimensi…

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