title: Icon as image and as idea: aspects of Byzantine monumental art in their interaction
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metadata.value: Loungina, Darya A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-08-20T15:37:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-08-20T15:37:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.value: Loungina D. A. Icon as image and as idea: aspects of Byzantine monumental art in their interaction. Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2017, vol. 33, issue 2, pp. 191–200.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2017.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/7056
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metadata.value: As church architecture evolved from the 5th century, monumental Byzantine art marked out several
  aspects of icon: the religious, the anthropological, the political, the aesthetic and others. A connection
  between the political aspect of the icon (as expressed in the figure of the basileus who represented God
  on Earth), the anthropological aspect (any human being in his expression of the likeness of God, according
  to Christian dogma), the aesthetic aspect (mosaics of fresco pictures of biblical personages)
  became evident by that time. But the correlation of a living creature and its motionless image was
  interpreted in different ways during different periods of Byzantine history (divided into periods by the
  epoch of the first Ecumenical Councils of the 4th to 5th centuries), the period of the canonical establishment
  of icon-painting The ‘Second Iconoclasm’ of the 8th century, the Komnenian dynasty (11–13th
  century) and the 14th and 15th century Palaiologian Renaissance. The subject of the article is the versatility of the icon which strived to affirm God’s presence in
  the world and sought not only for abstract theological but also for plastic and visual solutions to divine
  subjects. The aim of the article is to clarify the phenomenon of the icon as resting upon dogmatic,
  anthropological, political and aesthetic principles of such an image.
  The article is methodologically corroborated by the art-historical theories (those of Hans
  Sedlmayr, Erwin Panofsky and Otto Demus) which explain the transition from the ancient mimesis
  to the principle which make the image selfsufficient. The former painting, illusionist mission is now
  assigned to architecture which stresses the corporal and material elements of the Divine cosmos. As
  the iconpainting canon is established, painting accepts a new principle the spiritualization of the flesh,
  the principle of joining of the ideal and the material (which set the ground of the Renaissance).
  The author researches this multilateralism which aimed at the statement of God on Earth by
  force of not only theological arguments but also by plastic and visual means. The author concludes that
  indissoluble aesthetic, religious, and political aspects of the icon make for a specific type of Medieval
  figurativeness. Refs 12.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 33; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monumental art (as opposed to easel painting)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: image (signum)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lack of distance between a viewer and the icon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: iconoclasm
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rise of canon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hesychasm
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: formation of spectator
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Icon as image and as idea: aspects of Byzantine monumental art in their interaction
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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