Classicisation or representation?

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Grotowski, P. Ł. (2013). Classicisation or representation?: Mimesis in Byzantine pictorial arts as a derivative of style, (37), 23-36. doi:10.2298/ZOG1337023G
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Title

Classicisation or representation?

Subtitle

Mimesis in Byzantine pictorial arts as a derivative of style

Author

Piotr, Ł, Grotowski

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

37

Start page

23

End page

36

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1337023G

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611337023G

Date

2013-2020/03/11/20:47:26

Abstract

The idea of mimesis in art theory has been neglected by Byzantine scholars. Reasons for this may lie in the fact that the understanding of the term in Byzantium was very complex and that it changed over time. In the Early Byzantine period and the so-called Macedonian Renaissance, a tendency to use tonal modelling, which was inherited from ancient Greco-Roman art, can still be observed. Starting in the late tenth century they give way to a more linear style. Simultaneously, a change in the understanding of mimesis in theological writings can also be observed. The aim of this paper is to introduce the problem of a mimetic approach in visual arts as a phenomenon in Byzantine culture.

Keywords

affinity, Byzantine aesthetics, mimesis, simulacrum, theory of images, veracity