NEW YORK – The Axion Estin Foundation Chanters performed the Byzantine Pop-Ups on Friday, December 15 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Medieval Sculpture Hall, Gallery 305, in front of the only full-scale, authorized painting of the Deesis Mosaic from Hagia Sophia. The original mosaic displaying the Deesis (Christ flanked by the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist) was one of the finest works produced in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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