Byzantine aesthetics. Historical perspective. Bychkov V.

The monograph is the most complete conceptual study of Byzantine aesthetics in its historical perspective in world science, including the Provisant Early Christian period, the history of the Byzantine aesthetics from the IV to the middle of the XV century. and Poznanti period in the Old Russian culture of the XV-XVII centuries. On the material of the texts of the largest fathers and teachers of the Church of Vasily the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Athanasius of Alexandria, Dionysius of Areopagita, Maxim the Confessor, John Damaskin, Theodore Studite and a number of other, Byzantine humanists and Ishikhasts, the formation and certain development of the basic representations of the nearby about beauty, light, art, image, symbol, allegory, icon; A pronounced aesthetic coloring of many levels of Byzantine theology and liturgical practice has been revealed.

Particular attention is paid to the main types of the aesthetic consciousness of the Byzantines: Patristic-Bogoslovsky, antiquian, aesthetics of asceticism, liturgical aesthetics, ecfrasis of works of art.

The role and significance of Byzantine aesthetics for the formation of aesthetic representations and the development of art in ancient Rus' is shown. History and social life of Italy of the XIII-XIV centuries.