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Byzantine aesthetics
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URL: http://philosophy.ru/library/bychkov/byz-ae-en.html
Enciclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. M.Kelly. Vol.1. N.Y.-Oxford, 1998. Pp. 321-323. Byzantine aesthetics - one of the trends in medieval aesthetics that has been formed within the Greek-speaking culture of Byzantium
(4-15th c.). It is based on the aesthetic ideas of Antiquity (first of all, Neoplatonism) and early Patristics. Early Patristics, in fact, rejects the majority of aesthetic values of the ancient (pagan) world -- the so-called "aesthetics of negation" -- and focuses around spiritual beauty and the ideas of Christian symbolism which just start to take root at that time. B.a. develops in several directions. [ eng ] |

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