The icon of the Virgin “delle Benedettine” from Andria cathedral and some other monuments of Byzantine icon-painting in Southern Italy. The problem of artistic connections between East and West around 1200

The icon of the Virgin from Andria is believed to be one of the early Greek icons found in Southern Italy. Along with some formidable examples of 12th – 13th centurу monumental painting in Byzantium, it presents an intermediate stage between two versions of the “monumental style” – the paintings of the chapel in St. John the Theologian monastery on Patmos and the wall paintings of Latomou monastery in Thessaloniki. Th us, the icon of the Virgin from Andria can be aligned with the paintings of the metropolitan circle including Constantinople.