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Mosaics and Church Decoration: The Cathedral in Poreč

The text discusses the role of "image" in the early Byzantine church as based on the ideas of the former – constituent - period, on the texts of the New and Old Testaments and writings of the Church Fathers, as well as a range of contemporary theological and philosophical debates that defined "image" as a communication tool. The image is transmitted idea of aesthetic canon, dogmatic interpretation, persuasive presentation, didactic resources and, above all, "the word" translated into visual language. The decoration of the church interior, thus, had become a complex program, with clear mission which recognition and understanding was not one- dimensional, but is set on several levels of reading. One of the most important issues was that the images in church, unlike the early Christian ones, were not regarded as individual isolated works even if set in individual frames, but rather as parts of an organic, indivisible whole built up on fixed principles. These principles were: centricity, symmetry and hierarchy of displaying and “reading” images.

mosaics, christianity, iconography, Poreč, Eufrasius

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