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The Sensual Icon PB: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

The Sensual Icon PB: Space, Ritual, and the Senses in Byzantium

Pentcheva, Bissera V.

Paperback

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ISBN10: 0271035838
ISBN13: 9780271035833
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Oct 28 2010
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.42
Height: 0.82 Width: 7.62 Depth: 9.96
Language: English

Today we take the word icon to mean a sign, or we equate it with portraits of Christ and the saints. In The Sensual Icon, Bissera Pentcheva demonstrates how icons originally manifested the presence of the Holy Spirit in matter. Christ was the ideal icon, emerging through the Incarnation; so, too, were the bodies of the stylites (column-saints) penetrated by the divine pneuma (breath or spirit), or the Eucharist, or the Justinianic space of Hagia Sophia filled with the reverberations of chants and the smoke of incense. Iconoclasm (726-843) challenged these Spirit-centered definitions of the icon, eventually restricting the word to mean only the lifeless imprint (typos) of Christ's visual characteristics on matter.

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