Byzantine Aesthetics – Area within the history of aesthetics covering the research on the beautiful, sublime, light, image, symbol, sign, word, canon and art in the excess of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Byzantine Aesthetics follows the development of Byzantine culture and civilization in the context of a separate state of ⅳ c. (The establishment of Byzantium), so until ⅹⅴ c. (PA-DOT of Constantinople and Byzantium in 1453), actively developing the Christian ideology that relies on many ideas of ancient culture and aesthetics. Byzantine Aesthetics, although mostly build upon the ideas of stormers, early Christians, Gnostistians and Neoplatonians, however, the ideas of the Christian moral and spiritual education is becoming the resolute factor of Byzantine artistic work. In the Byzantine aesthetics, according to Viktor Bickov, we can distinguish multiple directions with their own specifics and with many stories, among which the most significant are: Patristic Aesthetics (with the main representatives: Atanasius Alexandria, Gregory Low, Vasily Great, John Chrysost and Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite) , Aesthetics under the influence of antiquity (Patriarch Photius, Michael Psp), artistic and scientific aesthetics (the aesthetics of the ectrace), the interior aesthetics (the aesthetics of asceticism and monasticism), the cult, that is, the liturgical aesthetics, customary aesthetics, as well as the aesthetics of folklore. Lit.: Mr. Matcheg, ITSANTINE ATTHITICS, LONDON, 1963; VV. Bichkov, Byzantine professics, Moscow, 1977; IK. Drop, Byzantine aesthetics and medieval paintings in Macedonia from the XI and ⅻ century, Skopje, 2003 IV. Ⅹ.
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