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Certain features of this late18th-century icon recall and combine styles and symbols from earlier periods. St. George, for example, is slaying a serpent rather than a dragon, and Mary faces the viewer in a plain blue robe, the folds of which are depicted by a heavy linear overlay in a contrasting color.
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Credit lineIcon. Late 18th century. Ethiopian Orthodox. National Museum of African Art, Gift of Ciro R. Taddeo & family in memory of our sister, Mrs. Jean Taddeo-Ruiz of Brooklyn, New York. CC0.
