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The Eleusa (or ''Eleousa''; el, Ἐλεούσα – ''tenderness'' or ''showing mercy'') is a type of depiction of the Virgin Mary in icons in which the Christ Child is nestled against her cheek. In the Western Church the type is often known as the Virgin of Tenderness.
File:Vladimirskaya.jpg, Theotokos of Vladimir, Vladimirskaya
File:Feodorovskaya ikona so skazaniem.jpg, Theotokos Fyodorovskaya, Fyodorovskaya
File:Theotokos of Tolga (fragment).jpg, Theotokos of Tolga, Tolgskaya
File:Feofan Donskaja.jpg, Our Lady of the Don, Donskaja
File:The Cambrai Madonna.jpg, ''Cambrai Madonna'', Italo-Byzantine, c. 1340, Cambrai Cathedral
File:Angelos Akotantos - Icon of the Mother of God and Infant Christ (Virgin Eleousa) - 2010.154 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif, ''The Virgin Eleousa'', Crete, c. 1425, Cleveland Museum of Art
File:Tempi Madonna by Raffaello Sanzio - Alte Pinakothek - Munich - Germany 2017.jpg, ''Tempi Madonna'', Raphael, 1508, Alte Pinakothek
File:Della-Robbia-Sevilla1.jpg, "Eleusa style" Relief by Andrea della Robbia in Seville
File:Wga Pompeo Batoni Madonna and Child.jpg, Pompeo Batoni, c. 1742
Byzantium: faith and power (1261–1557)
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Eleusa icons {{Virgin Mary Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary Titles of Mary Virgin Mary in art Byzantine art
The Eleusa (or ''Eleousa''; el, Ἐλεούσα – ''tenderness'' or ''showing mercy'') is a type of depiction of the Virgin Mary in icons in which the Christ Child is nestled against her cheek. In the Western Church the type is often known as the Virgin of Tenderness.
Depictions
Such icons have been venerated in the Eastern Church for centuries. Similar types of depiction are also found in Madonna (art), Madonna paintings in the Western Church where they are called the Madonna Eleusa, or the Virgin of Tenderness. By the 19th century examples such as th ''Refugium Peccatorum, Lady of Refuge'' type (e.g. the ''Refugium Peccatorum Madonna (Crosio), Refugium Peccatorum Madonna'' by Luigi Crosio) were widespread and they were also used in retablos in Mexican art.''Art and faith in Mexico: the nineteenth-century retablo tradition'' by Charles Muir Lovell pages 93–94 In Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy the term Panagia Eleousa is often used. The Theotokos of Vladimir and Theotokos of Pochayiv are well-known examples of this type of icon. Eleusa is also used as epithet for describing and praising the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. While the Eastern Church does not generally create three-dimensional religious art, Eleusa-style reliefs and sculptures, as well as icons, have also been used in the Western Church. The Pelagonitissa is a variant in which the infant Jesus makes an abrupt movement.Gallery
Eastern icons
Western icons
See also
* List of Theotokos of St. Theodore icons * Marian devotions * Marian artSources
External links
Byzantium: faith and power (1261–1557)
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Eleusa icons {{Virgin Mary Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary Titles of Mary Virgin Mary in art Byzantine art