TY - BOOK ID - 3312748 TI - Byzantine holy images : transcendence and immanence : the theological background of the Iconography and Aesthetics of the Chora Church AU - Karahan, Anne AU - Peeters AU - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven PY - 2010 VL - 176 SN - 9789042920804 9042920807 PB - Leuven Paris Walpole Leuven Peeters Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Departement Oosterse Studies DB - UniCat KW - Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine KW - Mosaics, Byzantine KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Peinture et décoration murales byzantines KW - Mosaïque byzantine KW - Art et symbolisme chrétiens KW - Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Academic collection KW - 246.5 KW - 246.5 Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans KW - Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans KW - Peinture et décoration murales byzantines KW - Mosaïque byzantine KW - Art et symbolisme chrétiens KW - Byzantine mural painting and decoration KW - Byzantine mosaics KW - Art, Christian KW - Art, Ecclesiastical KW - Arts in the church KW - Christian symbolism KW - Ecclesiastical art KW - Symbolism and Christian art KW - Religious art KW - Symbolism KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Istanbul (Turkey). KW - Istanbul. KW - Kariye Djami (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Chora (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Kariye Museum (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Kariye Müzesi (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Erlöserkirche in Chora (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Chora-Kirche (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Church of St. Saviour in Chora (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Chora-Kloster (Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Kariye camii (Istanbul, Turquie) KW - Mural painting and decoration [Byzantine ] KW - Turkey KW - Istanbul (Turkey) KW - Mosaics [Byzantine ] KW - Chora (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) KW - Kariye Müzesi KW - Symbolism in art KW - Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine - Turkey - Istanbul KW - Mosaics, Byzantine - Turkey - Istanbul KW - Christian art and symbolism - Turkey - Istanbul UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3312748 AB - Patristic thinking is the bedrock of the uniformity of Byzantine culture, legitimization of image use in the Eastern Church, as well as Byzantine aesthetics, Karahan argues. The synergy in Late Byzantine holy images of "meta-images" for God's inexplicability, and elaborated dramatized narration for God's immanence epitomize orthodox tradition in general, and in particular fourth-century Cappadocian modes and models of thought on Christology, trinitarian theology and the Theotokos. The incomprehensible, uncircumscribed invisible Trinity, and the comprehensible God-man born of the Theotokos, circumscribed in flesh but not in divinity is a one-God reality of transcendent ontology and actions in the world of the two-natured image of God, Christ. Explanations in words or in images can not ignore these orthodox axioms without turning into false images or heretic idols. This book explores why and how the idiosyncratic use of color, form, kinetics, light, and brilliance in Late Byzantine aesthetics concur with the tradition of the Fathers. How narration in image as well as literature is orthodoxos, "of right belief, orthodox". ER -