This dissertation looks at the scriptural images of angel and temple, as they occur in key works by John Damascene: on the Heresies, chapter 100 "On the Ishmaelites;" Three Treatises on the Divine Images, and on the Orthodox Faith. Angelic and temple imagery forms an important c…
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The Ferapontov Monastery, founded by the monk Ferapont in 1398, stands in the White Lake (Belozersk) District, a flat, forested area some 430 miles north of Moscow. Stunning frescoes painted by the iconographer Dionisy and his sons between 1500–1502 cover not only the interior w…
This dissertation deals with the corpus of icons painted by Serbian artists between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The icons were housed in Serbian Orthodox churches in Bosnia-Herzegovina at th…
Popular culture icons are physical objects of everyday use that make the everyday meaningful. They are ideas, both old and new, that are at the mercy of its viewer, meaning whatever the viewer desires whenever the viewers desires it. Celebrities with iconic images are global fig…
This thesis, with theological aesthetics as a theoretical horizon, and the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine period as a case study, is an analysis of the problem of Christology involved in the icon. It tries to make contribution in the three following aspects: (1) Study…
This study explores the representation of holy places in devotional images from the early Christian era to the post-Byzantine period. I delineate five phases of this development. The first phase (300s–500s) was connected to the rise of Christian sacred sites. Christian ideas abo…