https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.732
Light is the most important element in the creative works by Theophanes the Greek, Andrei Rublev and Dionysius. It is closely linked to the theology of hesychasm. The artist wanted to reflect in their works the real experience of God in the form of the penetrating Light experienced by Hesychasm during the Jesus Prayer. Each of them, however, experienced that an different way. In case of Theophanes, mainly in the Church of Transfigurations of the Saviour in Novogorod, the light annihilates the matter. The artist achieves that through the dynamics strokes of the brush mainly. In that way he reflects hesychasm reaching sanctity, his internal combat to the absolute theosis. Rublev on the other presents the peak of hesychastic experience in his icons, particularly in the icon of the Holy Trinity. Rublev does not annihilate the matter buy transform it presenting the state of perfection; no dynamic line or more intense patch of colour disturbs the harmony of the icon. Dionysios presents the hesychastic experience in a still different way. The harmony of icons by Dionysios is based on the aesthetic values, the beauty of the colour and line. Those three great artistic living at the turn of the 14th and 15th c. close the great period in development of Ruthenian icon. Their phenomenon would probably have not appeared it they had not been penetrated by the ideas of hesychasm. Departure from hesychasm contributed to disappearance of light from the icon that is disappearance of what was its core characteristic. Not without a reason the revival of the icon during the 19th and 20th c. coincided with the revival of hesychastic practices.
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