Byzantine Visual Culture: Conditions of “Right” Belief and Some Platonic Outlooks
Monumental picture programs of Byzantine churches exist within a spatial and liturgical setting of rituals that depend on circumstances that create a distinction from profane to sacred. The core theme is the epic narrative of the holy drama of the incarnated son, i.e., the image of God (eikon tou th...
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2016
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Year: 2016, Volume: 63, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 210-244 |
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Byzantine aesthetics
Orthodox theology
Byzantine and medieval art
Cappadocian fathers
Greek patristics and ancient philosophy
Byzantine churches, Cappadocia
Byzantine Istanbul
Byzantine Ravenna
Saint Catherine’s Monastery church, Sinai
meta-images
apophatic theology
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