Eastern Orthodox icons: facial expression

 

Christ "Acheiropoietos," 14th-beg. 15th c. (Rublev Museum, Moscow)

Crucifix, 1500, by Dionysius (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

 

Mother of God "Hodigitria," beg. 16th c. (Rublev Museum, Moscow)

Fragment

Mother of God "Hodigitria" Smolensk type, mid. 16th c.,  Tver (Rublev Museum)

Fragment

Mother of God "Khlynovskaya" type, 1648, Yaroslavl

Fragment

Mother of God "Pelagonitissa" type, Byzantine, 15th c. (St. Catherine's, Sinai)

 

Mother of God "Pelagonitissa" type, Byzantine, 15th c. (Skopje)

 

Mother of God "Pafsolype" type, Byzantine, 14th c. (Istambul)

 

Mother of God, Tikhvin type, 1680 (Rublev Museum, Moscow); fragment

 

Virgin Mary, Ethiopian, 1445-80 (Walters Museum, Baltimore)

 

Virgin Mary, Ethiopian, 15th c. (Walters Museum, Baltimore)

 

Virgin Mary, Ethiopian, 17th c. (Walters Museum, Baltimore)