Published: 2018-09-08

Calendar Icons - Catalogue of All Saints as a Collective Image of the Church

Grażyna Kobrzeniecka-Sikorska
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.590

Abstract

Tidying up was a feature of the Byzantine life. The principle of order covered all spheres of the life, particularly related to the Byzantine art, about which is thought in terms of the catalogue. Calendar icons which were started painting after the period of the iconoclasm were one of characteristic signs of the aspiration to cataloguing. They contain representations of the saints and feasts of the liturgical year in the order. They are equivalent of liturgical books: menaion and menologion. Calendar icons often enriched Marian images from the 18th century in Russia. Gathered on one plate isolated "sancties" organized according to principles of cataloguing. They are united in the communion of the Church, because the calendar icons are a symbolic image of the Church above all. They are manifestation of power and strength of Church.

Keywords:

Byzantium, painting, icons

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Kobrzeniecka-Sikorska, G. (2018). Calendar Icons - Catalogue of All Saints as a Collective Image of the Church. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (19), 387–398. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.590

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