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Five - Inspired Icons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2022

Karin Krause
Karin Krause
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University of Chicago
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Responding to obviously persisting concerns regarding the venerability of icons in the post-Iconoclastic era, some of the empire’s leading theologians made the novel claim that it is not human artistry, but divine inspiration that ultimately ensures the icon’s authenticity – its resemblance to its prototype. Just as with Christian literature, the divine inspiration of material images guarantees their faithfulness, and it is divine inspiration that also releases the work of art from the realm of ‘dead’ matter, enlivening it with the divine pneuma.

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icon theoryepistemic theoryanimationillusionism
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Divine Inspiration in Byzantium
Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology
 , pp. 232 - 272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Inspired Icons
  • Karin Krause, University of Chicago
  • Book: Divine Inspiration in Byzantium
  • Online publication: 16 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108922050.006
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  • Inspired Icons
  • Karin Krause, University of Chicago
  • Book: Divine Inspiration in Byzantium
  • Online publication: 16 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108922050.006
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  • Inspired Icons
  • Karin Krause, University of Chicago
  • Book: Divine Inspiration in Byzantium
  • Online publication: 16 July 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108922050.006
Available formats
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