#deesis

[vintage-ukraine]

Armenian director Sergei Parajanov posing with the XVIIIth century Deesis icon in the St. Paraskeva Church in Kosmach, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, during the filming of his fil Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, 1964

[emaadsidiki]

Blessed Mother Mary & Baby Jesus Mosaic

[medievalproject]

Jesus Embroidery found in Russia🪡🧵

Found in a Medieval Russian burial ground, this embroidery fragment depicts the Deesis, a traditional iconic Byzantine and later Eastern Orthodox representation of Christ in Majesty or Christ Pantocrator.

The Deesis layout has Christ in the center of St John the Baptist to Christ's left and the Virgin Mary to his right. Christ is usually enthroned, holding a book in his left hand and raising the right hand in gesture of blessing. You can sort of make it out here. A praying St John can also be deduces but the other figure likely Mary, on the other side, has been lost. Archeologists believe this fabric was part of a headdress from sometime between the 13th and 15th century.

As someone who dabbles in various mediums of art - painting, illustration, leather work and even embroidery, I find it particularly fascinating to hear about and see even the smallest pieces of surviving textiles from the medieval period let alone even older eras.

[uncommonincorrectquotes]

A: hi yes A: i'd like to order a FUCKING BREAK please. A: for the next MILLION YEARS, please. A: thank you :)

[dogboyboyshorts]

incapable of articulating this properly but does anyone else think its totally wild how bruce wayne has a full time carer and this is totally normal and no one questions it

[concupiscience]

[whinyhermione]

Hello fellow Dee <3

Honestly I love seeing people using the same nickname as me it's so fun heheheeee

Hi dee 🤭🤭, Ikr 😁

[the-haiku-bot]

a fire breathing

dragon? nah, tumblr’s got a

heavy breathing egg

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

a fire breathing dragon? nah, tumblr's got a heavy breathing egg

[daughterofruins]

It is a funny thing, the dupatta. Literally, it is just a scarf, used for accessorization and beautification of the female body. Here, however, we had several synonyms for this pretty piece of clothing- a daughter’s dignity, a woman’s modesty, a cloth behind which you are expected to hide. a cloth, which when on top of your head pushes you so far beneath the social hierarchy that you can only ever hope to look back up again. I have often heard people compare a woman’s dupatta with a man’s turban. 

You could joke about every element in a man’s life, and he would laugh, slapping his thigh pretending it was the funniest joke in the world; but if you so much as a minor comment on his daughter, he would start a blood feud with you right then and there for ever having thought of his honour, his daughter that way. 

Funny how terribly people treat their honours. 

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[lavenderheyys]

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Last song: I wanna be adored - The Stone Roses

Last movie: Saptapadi (1961)

Last show: Abbott Elementary S1 ( i was obsessed)

Currently watching: The Last of Us, Abbott Elementary S2

Currently reading: Maurice - E. M. Forster ( rewatched the movie recently and I had to check out the novel)

Current obsession: I've been obsessed with old Uttam Kumar movies recently, I mean you can't blame me, just look at the guy <3

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[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Deesis mosaic in Hagia Sophia. Virgin Mary, Christ, John the Baptist (x 2.5 life size) - late 12th CE.

[anthos11]

The Holy Quarter by Max Bedulenko - The Christ Pantocrator of the Deesis mosaic (13th-century) in Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)

[dogboyboyshorts]

was anyone going to tell me slade wilson was a vintage queer coded villain or was i just supposed to learn that from watching teen titans 2003

[stars-mischief]

Wanna help me glitter Pierre’s shop?

-Dee @ask-dee-sdv

heheh..

you came to the right person. deesy!~

i just hope no one tells @pierres-general-deliveries

if he finds out, we're really gonna get it..

[luc1ferian]

Bhai if you suddenly stopped posting one day and never came back I'd be up at night thinking about, I can promise you that

okay be honest, if I disappeared one day would you miss me?

[misssclumsy]

A little Kitty party with my Tumblr moots can make my mood, like for months

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Sorry if I forget anyone 😿

I'm just saying that I LOVE YOU ALL and there's nothing I can do about 😿 💕✨