Controversies intertwined: Architecture as icon examined through the lenses of the Byzantine iconoclastic debates
This essay tackles two very closely intertwined, but highly controversial notions in Byzantine studies: 1) the idea that Byzantine religious architecture can be understood as an icon, and 2) the thought that architecture as icon can and should be examined through the lenses of the vigorous intellect...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Transforming Sacred Spaces / edited by Sabine Feist |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This essay tackles two very closely intertwined, but highly controversial notions in Byzantine studies: 1) the idea that Byzantine religious architecture can be understood as an icon, and 2) the thought that architecture as icon can and should be examined through the lenses of the vigorous intellectual debates within Byzantine Iconoclasm. The Byzantine iconoclastic debates subtly interwove the ontological philosophy into the epistemiological discussion of icons. In such a context, the human body (of Christ in particular) and the architectural body (an altar canopy in the case of this study) can be understood as "homomorphic" entities. Therefore, a canopy as micro-architecture becomes an icon of the sacred place. |
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| ISBN: | 978-3-95490-419-8 |