This mural was removed from the wall of the apse in the church of Santa Maria at Tahull. The Santa Maria was the sister church of San Clemente in the same Catalonian town and likewise consecrated in 1123. The Madonna represents a Byzantine type of the depiction of Mary: the "nikopoia" (the bringer of victory). The nikopoia takes the form of a stringently symmetrical composition, with the child seated in the centre, as if himself enthroned in his enthroned mother's lap. This fresco was executed by the chief master of San Clemente.
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