Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography
This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in fourteenth century Serbian Christian Orthodox iconography, painted in the Byzantine style. The focus of this research is on the fresco of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the Zodiac, from the Lesnovo monastery, now situated in North Macedon...
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| description | This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in fourteenth century Serbian Christian Orthodox iconography, painted in the Byzantine style. The focus of this research is on the fresco of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the Zodiac, from the Lesnovo monastery, now situated in North Macedonia. While the monasticism view and official church refuse to accept that the fresco presents the Zodiac signs and the planets, in the academic world there are detailed explanations of the visual details of this fresco but no explanation as to why the Zodiac is painted there. The other subject of this research is the Visoki Decani monastery in Kosovo, with a specific focus on the images of the Sun and the Moon in the fresco entitled, The Crucifixion of Christ. This paper concentrates on possible explanations as to why these figures, the Zodiac and the planets were painted and what they could possibly represent. The conclusion is that these celestial images are a product of a synergy between the Hellenistic and the Christian cosmology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a47f03d2fea945189bf298b475d090212023-07-23T12:36:50ZengArchaeoastronomy and Ancient TechnologiesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies2310-21442020-12-0182415410.24412/2310-2144-10.24411/2310-2144-2020-00010Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconographyVan de moortel-Ilic, D.0This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in fourteenth century Serbian Christian Orthodox iconography, painted in the Byzantine style. The focus of this research is on the fresco of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the Zodiac, from the Lesnovo monastery, now situated in North Macedonia. While the monasticism view and official church refuse to accept that the fresco presents the Zodiac signs and the planets, in the academic world there are detailed explanations of the visual details of this fresco but no explanation as to why the Zodiac is painted there. The other subject of this research is the Visoki Decani monastery in Kosovo, with a specific focus on the images of the Sun and the Moon in the fresco entitled, The Crucifixion of Christ. This paper concentrates on possible explanations as to why these figures, the Zodiac and the planets were painted and what they could possibly represent. The conclusion is that these celestial images are a product of a synergy between the Hellenistic and the Christian cosmology.This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in fourteenth century Serbian Christian Orthodox iconography, painted in the Byzantine style. The focus of this research is on the fresco of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the Zodiac, from the Lesnovo monastery, now situated in North Macedonia. While the monasticism view and official church refuse to accept that the fresco presents the Zodiac signs and the planets, in the academic world there are detailed explanations of the visual details of this fresco but no explanation as to why the Zodiac is painted there. The other subject of this research is the Visoki Decani monastery in Kosovo, with a specific focus on the images of the Sun and the Moon in the fresco entitled, The Crucifixion of Christ. This paper concentrates on possible explanations as to why these figures, the Zodiac and the planets were painted and what they could possibly represent. The conclusion is that these celestial images are a product of a synergy between the Hellenistic and the Christian cosmology.https://aaatec.org/documents/article/vd1.pdfzodiacpersonified planetsmedieval iconographyarchaeoastronomypsalm 148byzantine stylevisoki decanibogorodica ljeviskalesnovo |
| spellingShingle | Van de moortel-Ilic, D. Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies zodiac personified planets medieval iconography archaeoastronomy psalm 148 byzantine style visoki decani bogorodica ljeviska lesnovo |
| title | Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography |
| title_full | Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography |
| title_fullStr | Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography |
| title_short | Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography |
| title_sort | personification of the sun the moon and the planets in fourteenth century serbian iconography |
| topic | zodiac personified planets medieval iconography archaeoastronomy psalm 148 byzantine style visoki decani bogorodica ljeviska lesnovo |
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