The painting is of the Hodegetria type, i.e., Our Lady of the Way, and most probably one of the many copies of the famous Madonna Salus Populi Romani, located at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The ...
The original of this icon is in the St. Stephen Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. The icon from the latter part of the seventeenth century is a typical Hodegetria, the Mother pointing with her right hand ...