The Cosmic Cross as Logos’ Theophany. First Version of Sant’Apollinare in Classe’s Apsidal Mosaic and Jerusalem’s Staurophany of AD 351
| Autor: | Davide Longhi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | IKON. 6:275-286 |
| ISSN: | 2507-041X 1846-8551 |
| DOI: | 10.1484/j.ikon.5.102955 |
| Popis: | The apsidal mosaic of Sant’Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna is not, as it seems, a single iconographic program, but was made in three distinct phases. In the first version, attested by sinopias, St Apollinaris didn’t appear, but there were just two crosses, the former crowned, in the middle of the apsidal vault, the latter drawn at the base, in the centre of a frieze with peacocks and other birds. Such composition, perhaps considered less understandable, was replaced by a symbolic Transfiguration, constituted by a crowned cross as image of the transfigured Christ and by three lambs as the symbols of Peter, James and John. Both inscriptions IXΘΥΣ and SALUS MUNDI, but particularly the landscape, characterised by tall olive tree making the background of the crowned cross, are all elements present in the famous Letter of Cyril to Constantine II, in which the bishop tells the Emperor about a staurophany which occurred over Jerusalem in AD 351 between Golgotha and the Mount of Olives. The impression is that bu... |
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