ERMINIA – ABECEDAR AL PICTURII BISERICEȘTI: ASPECTE GENETICO-EVOLUTIVE
ERMINIA – ALPHABET OF CHURCH PAINTING: GENETIC EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS

Summary/Abstract: In the context of the glaring mistakes that are encountered in ecclesiastical painting and the lack of basic knowledge inthis field, this study comes to present how Erminia has evolved throughout history. Starting from the Byzantine period, passingthrough the post-Byzantine period and reaching the present day, Erminia and its predecessors, manuscripts and sketch books,aimed to help and maintain a canonical-artistic-ecclesial unity throughout the Orthodox Christian area. Another aspect of the article is to identify some ways of approaching Erminia from various points of view: technical, iconographic-illustrative, compositional, academic and theological. Throughout history, Erminia has been synthesized andstructured in such a way as to provide a maximum of information but its volume should not be diffi cult to use by iconographers.

• Details
• Contents