Deesis, Christ enthroned on a red cushion, wearing a chiton, blessing and holding gospel, with the Virgin and St John the Baptist, fresco, detail, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the east wall of the Karanlik Church or Dark Church, a rock-cut cross-in-square column church, 11th century, Byzantine, in Goreme Open Air Museum, Nevsehir province, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. This area forms part of the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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