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The narrators take us to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul where we see an enormous mosaic of the Virgin Mary and Child. It is stylized, frontal, and symbolic. Why did the artist decide to portray this religious figure in such a way. It is skilled but rejects illusionism. Why?