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Hodegetria|həʊdiːˈgiːtrɪə|
[f. Gr. ὁδηγητρία (see below).]
An iconographical variant of the Virgin and Child in which the Child is depicted on the Virgin's left arm while she indicates Him with her right hand as ‘The Indicator of the Way’ (the meaning of the Greek word).
According to tradition the arrangement follows that of a painting originally attributed to St. Luke, but the earliest surviving example is probably to be assigned to the 7th century. The composition was frequently copied in Italy, the Byzantine world, and Russia. Sometimes, in the process of copying, the Child was transferred from the Virgin's left arm to the right and she indicates Him with her left hand, but there is no particular significance in this variant.
1880E. Venables in Smith & Cheetham Dict. Chr. Antiq. II. 1152/2 The famous Hodegetria..which was for so many centuries regarded with the deepest reverence by the Greeks. 1911L. Gillet in Cath. Encycl. XI. 397/2 Mention must be made of the numerous icons, the various types of the Madonna (Panagia, Nicopœia, Hodegetria). 1937Burlington Mag. July 18/2 The Madonna Enthroned in the central field of the Antwerp altarpiece belongs to the Hodegetria type common in Italy in the thirteenth century. 1952D. T. Rice Eng. Art 871–1100 v. 116 The most usual type of Virgin was that known as the Hodegetria or Indicator of the Way, where the Virgin holds the Child on her left arm while she points to Him with her right hand; the Child's right hand is extended in blessing. 1959C. Cecchelli et al. Rabbula Gospels 49 The Madonna is a Hodegetria type, that is, inspired by a famous image venerated since the 5th century in the Church of the Guides at Constantinople. |