Chalcoprate icon of the mother of God

Agiosoritissa, Svyatorachitsa, Chalkopratiyskaya - one of the types of the image of the Virgin without the Infant God, usually in a three-quarter turn with a prayer gesture of the hands. Known from a number of Byzantine sources no later than the 9th-10th centuries, it was widely used in Byzantine art of the 12th-15th centuries.