TY - JOUR

T1 - Visual and ideological context of the Chalke inscription at the entrance to the great palace of Constantinople

AU - Baranov, Vladimir A.

PY - 2017/1/1

Y1 - 2017/1/1

N2 - This article revisits an inscription on the Bronze Doors of the Imperial Palace in Constantinople and addresses the problem of its dating as well as the ideological and theological meaning of the inscription in the wider spatial and symbolical context of Late Antique gate decoration. A tentative reconstruction of the Transfiguration scene which the inscription might have accompanied is proposed, and the wider exegetical context of the Transfiguration, primarily, the interplay of the theological ideas of the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Second Coming of Christ, embedded in this event are examined against the doctrines of the Byzantine Iconoclasts.

AB - This article revisits an inscription on the Bronze Doors of the Imperial Palace in Constantinople and addresses the problem of its dating as well as the ideological and theological meaning of the inscription in the wider spatial and symbolical context of Late Antique gate decoration. A tentative reconstruction of the Transfiguration scene which the inscription might have accompanied is proposed, and the wider exegetical context of the Transfiguration, primarily, the interplay of the theological ideas of the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Second Coming of Christ, embedded in this event are examined against the doctrines of the Byzantine Iconoclasts.

KW - Byzantine iconoclasm

KW - Chalke

KW - John of Damascus

KW - Patriarch germanus

KW - Transfiguration

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85037658013&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1163/18177565-00131p05

DO - 10.1163/18177565-00131p05

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85037658013

VL - 13

SP - 19

EP - 42

JO - Scrinium

JF - Scrinium

SN - 1817-7530

IS - 1

ER -