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This fresco fragment, perhaps from Salonika (modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece), displays striated modeling across the figure’s face and hair. This treatment, which is characteristic of Byzantine painting technique, emphasizes the inner psyche of the unidentified saint, lending him an introspective air.
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