{"title":"The texts of inscriptions in depictions of the Dormition of the Holy Virgin in Byzantine art","authors":"Koukiaris Archimandrite Sylas","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1438143K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1438143K","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"1 1","pages":"143-152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68382018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the rhetorical capacity of architecture, and in particular, “the rhetoric of architecture” rather than the usually examined “rhetoric about architecture.” In this work, the rhetoric of architecture is understood as codified visual and architectural conventions as a series of transpositions that frame specific meanings other than and beyond visible and spatial. Here the proposed “rhetoric of architecture” is also more about its capacity as a “mnemonic tool” and about the “craft of composition” rather than about persuading others or about representation based on exact likeness. This concept is particularly significant in the creation of the sacred. By focusing on the architecture of the critical building of the Holy Sepulchre that enclosed the Tomb Shrine in Jerusalem as described by Patriarch Photios in the ninth and Abbot Daniel in the early twelfth centuries, this paper argues for the recognition of the mnemonic links that the Byzantines may have used not only for remembering the Tomb of Christ, but also for their several reconstructions of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem as well as for embedding the meaning of Jerusalem and New Jerusalem in their churches built elsewhere.
{"title":"The rhetoric of architecture in the Byzantine context: The case study of the Holy Sepulchre","authors":"J. Bogdanović","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1438001B","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1438001B","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the rhetorical capacity of architecture, and in particular, “the rhetoric of architecture” rather than the usually examined “rhetoric about architecture.” In this work, the rhetoric of architecture is understood as codified visual and architectural conventions as a series of transpositions that frame specific meanings other than and beyond visible and spatial. Here the proposed “rhetoric of architecture” is also more about its capacity as a “mnemonic tool” and about the “craft of composition” rather than about persuading others or about representation based on exact likeness. This concept is particularly significant in the creation of the sacred. By focusing on the architecture of the critical building of the Holy Sepulchre that enclosed the Tomb Shrine in Jerusalem as described by Patriarch Photios in the ninth and Abbot Daniel in the early twelfth centuries, this paper argues for the recognition of the mnemonic links that the Byzantines may have used not only for remembering the Tomb of Christ, but also for their several reconstructions of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem as well as for embedding the meaning of Jerusalem and New Jerusalem in their churches built elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"38 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68381100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper deals with the origins of the portable altar - the Byzantine antimension. Altaria portatilia were mentioned in literary sources since the seventh-eighth centuries. The sources also evidence their indispensable role related to liturgical rites, especially during military campaigns. The earliest known Byzantine antimension dates from the twelfth century. It is part of the Guelph Treasure, held by the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. Originally, portable altars were mainly made of wood but over time, textile fabrics prevailed over this hard material. Their iconographic decoration has from the beginnings been related to their liturgical function.
{"title":"Autels portatifs (Altaria portatilia) - Antimensia. Courte note","authors":"Katherina Karapli, H. Papastavrou","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1438221K","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1438221K","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the origins of the portable altar - the Byzantine antimension. Altaria portatilia were mentioned in literary sources since the seventh-eighth centuries. The sources also evidence their indispensable role related to liturgical rites, especially during military campaigns. The earliest known Byzantine antimension dates from the twelfth century. It is part of the Guelph Treasure, held by the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. Originally, portable altars were mainly made of wood but over time, textile fabrics prevailed over this hard material. Their iconographic decoration has from the beginnings been related to their liturgical function.","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"1 1","pages":"221-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68381918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Based on the results of the archaeological research of the oldest horizon of the katholikon of Žica Monastery, this paper brings the hypothesis that the initial model for its spatial arrangement was the main church of the Archbishopric of Kalocsa. Documented by the historical arguments that give the indirect validation, this hypothesis is considered from the perspective of cultural interactions which left a mark on the artistic creations of liminal geographical and historical zones of the Christian world during the twelfth and thirteenth century. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015: Hriscanska kultura na Balkanu u srednjem veku: Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od IX do XV veka i br. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst]
本文根据Žica修道院katholikon最古老的地平线的考古研究结果,提出了其空间布局的初始模型是Kalocsa大主教主教堂的假设。从文化互动的角度来考虑这一假设,这些文化互动在12世纪和13世纪基督教世界的有限地理和历史区域的艺术创作中留下了印记。[南斯拉夫]塞族共和国部长项目;177015:芬兰文化与芬兰文化的结合:Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od IX do XV veka i br。[177036] [Srpska srednjovekovna metnost]
{"title":"A hypothesis about the earliest phase of Zica katholikon","authors":"Ivan Stevović","doi":"10.2298/zog1438045s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/zog1438045s","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the results of the archaeological research of the oldest horizon of the katholikon of Žica Monastery, this paper brings the hypothesis that the initial model for its spatial arrangement was the main church of the Archbishopric of Kalocsa. Documented by the historical arguments that give the indirect validation, this hypothesis is considered from the perspective of cultural interactions which left a mark on the artistic creations of liminal geographical and historical zones of the Christian world during the twelfth and thirteenth century. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015: Hriscanska kultura na Balkanu u srednjem veku: Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od IX do XV veka i br. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst]","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"16 1","pages":"45-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68381525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper topic is identification of medical instruments and equipment using the images preserved in Serbian medieval painting. This topic has not been the subject of special study in the Serbian science. Medical instruments and equipment make an integral part of iconography of saint physicians. The following medical instruments have been displayed: knives, probes, spoons, tweezers, as well as various carrying boxes for equipment (square-like and cylindrical) and cases, and glass vessels for medical lubricants. Identification has been carried out owing primarily to late Roman remains of medical instruments and equipment, while such remains originating from Byzantine period are very rare. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 178018: Drustvene krize i savremena srpska književnost i kultura: nacionalni, regionalni, evropski i globalni okvir]
本文的主题是利用塞尔维亚中世纪绘画中保存的图像来识别医疗器械和设备。在塞尔维亚科学中,这一专题还没有得到专门的研究。医疗器械和设备是圣医肖像不可分割的一部分。展出了以下医疗器械:刀、探头、勺子、镊子,以及各种设备(方形和圆柱形)的携带盒和箱子,以及医用润滑剂的玻璃容器。进行鉴定主要是由于罗马晚期的医疗器械和设备遗迹,而这种源自拜占庭时期的遗迹非常罕见。[南斯拉夫]塞族共和国部长项目;[178018] [Drustvene krize i savremena srpska književnost i cultura: national, regionalni, evropski and global]
{"title":"Representations of medical instruments and equipment in Serbian medieval painting","authors":"S. Pajić","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1438059P","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1438059P","url":null,"abstract":"The paper topic is identification of medical instruments and equipment using the images preserved in Serbian medieval painting. This topic has not been the subject of special study in the Serbian science. Medical instruments and equipment make an integral part of iconography of saint physicians. The following medical instruments have been displayed: knives, probes, spoons, tweezers, as well as various carrying boxes for equipment (square-like and cylindrical) and cases, and glass vessels for medical lubricants. Identification has been carried out owing primarily to late Roman remains of medical instruments and equipment, while such remains originating from Byzantine period are very rare. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 178018: Drustvene krize i savremena srpska književnost i kultura: nacionalni, regionalni, evropski i globalni okvir]","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"13 1","pages":"59-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68381584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Holy martyrs by the name of Phokas, a gardener and a bishop, both from Sinope, were not frequently portrayed in the Eastern Christian world. They were sometimes depicted with objects relating them to seafaring, and the holy bishop in particular was shown holding a paddle. The source of such images can be traced to the writings devoted to the martyrs. The issue of why the holy bishop was depicted mainly in the Byzantine empire and the Russian principality is also discussed. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst]
{"title":"Holy gardener and holy bishop: The images and cult of holy martyrs named Phokas","authors":"Tatjana Starodubcev","doi":"10.2298/zog1337037s","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/zog1337037s","url":null,"abstract":"Holy martyrs by the name of Phokas, a gardener and a bishop, both from Sinope, were not frequently portrayed in the Eastern Christian world. They were sometimes depicted with objects relating them to seafaring, and the holy bishop in particular was shown holding a paddle. The source of such images can be traced to the writings devoted to the martyrs. The issue of why the holy bishop was depicted mainly in the Byzantine empire and the Russian principality is also discussed. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst]","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"12 1","pages":"37-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68380815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The late antique literary biography of Alexander the Great known as Pseudo-Callisthenes’ Alexander Romance was remarkably popular reading both in Byzantium and in the West in the middle ages. This literary work was also translated into Serbian Slavonic. Two extensively illustrated manuscripts of the “Serbian Alexandride”, and one decorated with only a few drawings are known. The paper discusses the iconographic features of the oldest of the known manuscripts, the so-called Belgrade Alexandride, which is commonly dated to the second half or the end of the fourteenth century. The research is particularly focused on the costumes of the depicted figures. The findings of the research suggest that the iconographic solutions of the miniatures are of Byzantine origin and that earlier views suggesting West-European influences on their shaping are not founded. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177032: Tradicija, inovacija i identitet u vizantijskom svetu]
亚历山大大帝的晚期古代文学传记被称为伪卡利斯提尼的亚历山大罗曼史,在中世纪的拜占庭和西方都非常受欢迎。这部文学作品也被翻译成塞尔维亚斯拉夫语。两份“塞尔维亚亚历山大”的大量插图手稿,一份只装饰了几幅画。本文讨论了已知最古老的手稿的图像特征,即所谓的贝尔格莱德亚历山大,它通常可以追溯到14世纪下半叶或末期。研究的重点是所描绘人物的服装。研究结果表明,微缩画的图像解决方案起源于拜占庭,早期认为西欧影响其形成的观点是没有根据的。[南斯拉夫]塞族共和国部长项目;[177032: Tradicija, invacija i identitet u vizantijskom [j]
{"title":"On Byzantine origins of figural miniatures of Belgrade Alexandride","authors":"Miloš Živković","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1337169Z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1337169Z","url":null,"abstract":"The late antique literary biography of Alexander the Great known as Pseudo-Callisthenes’ Alexander Romance was remarkably popular reading both in Byzantium and in the West in the middle ages. This literary work was also translated into Serbian Slavonic. Two extensively illustrated manuscripts of the “Serbian Alexandride”, and one decorated with only a few drawings are known. The paper discusses the iconographic features of the oldest of the known manuscripts, the so-called Belgrade Alexandride, which is commonly dated to the second half or the end of the fourteenth century. The research is particularly focused on the costumes of the depicted figures. The findings of the research suggest that the iconographic solutions of the miniatures are of Byzantine origin and that earlier views suggesting West-European influences on their shaping are not founded. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177032: Tradicija, inovacija i identitet u vizantijskom svetu]","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"1 1","pages":"169-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68381506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper analyzes the iconography of the images on the seals and coins of the Byzantine Doukas dynasty (1059-1078). It points to the iconographic motifs the Doukas emperors introduced or reintroduced into Byzantine sphragistics and numismatics. What is especially highlighted is the power of the Byzantine imperial ideology of the divine origin of emperorship which played a prominent role in the iconography of the imperial seals and coins of the Doukas dynasty. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015: Hriscanska kultura na Balkanu u srednjem veku: Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od IX do XV veka]
本文分析了拜占庭杜卡斯王朝(1059-1078)印章和钱币上的图像。它指出了杜卡斯皇帝引入或重新引入拜占庭地理学和钱币学的图像主题。特别突出的是拜占庭帝国的神圣起源意识形态的力量,它在杜卡斯王朝的帝国印章和硬币的肖像学中发挥了突出作用。[南斯拉夫]塞族共和国部长项目;[177015] [riscanska kultura na Balkanu srednjem veku: Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od IX do XV veka]
{"title":"Iconographic images on the seals and coinage of the Doukas dynasty","authors":"Jasmina Šaranac-Stamenković","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1337055S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1337055S","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes the iconography of the images on the seals and coins of the Byzantine Doukas dynasty (1059-1078). It points to the iconographic motifs the Doukas emperors introduced or reintroduced into Byzantine sphragistics and numismatics. What is especially highlighted is the power of the Byzantine imperial ideology of the divine origin of emperorship which played a prominent role in the iconography of the imperial seals and coins of the Doukas dynasty. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177015: Hriscanska kultura na Balkanu u srednjem veku: Vizantijsko carstvo, Srbi i Bugari od IX do XV veka]","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"1 1","pages":"55-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68380928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article deals with the issue of physical appearance of the saintly images in Byzantine painting and the manners of its conception. In that regard, the paper offers categorization of the portraiture in which different saints receive distinctive aesthetic code appropriate to their type of “attractiveness”.
{"title":"Colourful sparkles of imaginary vistas: Saintly beauty in the eyes of the beholder","authors":"Elizabeta Dimitrova","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1337077D","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1337077D","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the issue of physical appearance of the saintly images in Byzantine painting and the manners of its conception. In that regard, the paper offers categorization of the portraiture in which different saints receive distinctive aesthetic code appropriate to their type of “attractiveness”.","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"1 1","pages":"77-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68380967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The murals of Christ`s Transfiguration cathedral in Polotsk (ca. 1161), which were revealed during restoration in the last several years, include several thematic strata. Among them especially notable is a group of images, related to the patron saints. Distinguished among them are the figures of the patron saints of the Polotsk ducal family, to which St. Euphrosynia of Polotsk, the founder of the monastery and the builder of the Christ`s Church, belonged. The composition “Exaltation of the Cross” is set in one row with the patron saints, thus revealing semantic correlation with the ktitors` portrait in Kiev Saint Sophia and some other Kiev churches of tenth and eleventh centuries, where the idea of Russia becoming a member of Christian community is developed. At the same time, the patron theme is deeply intertwined with the purpose of the Christ`s Church to serve as a family burial for St. Euphrosynia.
{"title":"Patronal'nye izobrazenija v programme rospisej Spasskoj cerkvi Evfrosin'eva monastyrja v Polocke","authors":"Vladimir Sarab'janov","doi":"10.2298/ZOG1337087S","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1337087S","url":null,"abstract":"The murals of Christ`s Transfiguration cathedral in Polotsk (ca. 1161), which were revealed during restoration in the last several years, include several thematic strata. Among them especially notable is a group of images, related to the patron saints. Distinguished among them are the figures of the patron saints of the Polotsk ducal family, to which St. Euphrosynia of Polotsk, the founder of the monastery and the builder of the Christ`s Church, belonged. The composition “Exaltation of the Cross” is set in one row with the patron saints, thus revealing semantic correlation with the ktitors` portrait in Kiev Saint Sophia and some other Kiev churches of tenth and eleventh centuries, where the idea of Russia becoming a member of Christian community is developed. At the same time, the patron theme is deeply intertwined with the purpose of the Christ`s Church to serve as a family burial for St. Euphrosynia.","PeriodicalId":56170,"journal":{"name":"Zograf","volume":"1 1","pages":"87-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68381082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}