Понятие «литургическое пространство» и его связь с теорией искусства
The Concept of Liturgical Space and Its Connection with the Art Theory

Summary/Abstract: The report presents an overview of the main approaches to the definition of a term «liturgical space» in historiography and reveals the significance of this concept in the context of the study of medieval iconography. The emphasis is on its characteristics and relationship with the concept of an ensemble, a canon and in the synthesis of the theory of art. Comprehensive method of studying of icons, leads, as one of the possible options for interpreting a functional side of an icon, to analysis of it in the context of the liturgical ritual. Icon as an object placed in the liturgical space, becomes a part of the ensemble of a temple, and the notion of an ensemble is fundamental to the understanding of its organization. The ensemble of the inner space of a temple is formed not on the basis of the desire for unity of artistic style, but because of the focus on “primordial-united activity” («pervoedinoy activity», a term coined by a priest Pavel Florensky) is the liturgy. Thus, of great importance is a reference to sources and research papers which on dogmatic theology, in particular, the doctrine of grace, the sacraments, and pneumatology.

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