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Presentation of Jesus in the Temple,
by Andrei Rublev, St. Petersburg

The homeland of the icon is East. This true "visual theology" was born at the time of Justinian (6th century). And it is the 11th century that began in Russian iconography. With unspeakable sweetness this sacred art in God assumes the human sense. Above sensation and perception is the sphere of revelation and the seizure of the invisible . The sense of mystery is never given directly, but it is represented through intermediaries: an angel, a symbol, an icon, an all messengers secret message.

sign, allegory, symbol

The sign information and intelligence. These are the chemical formulas, billboards, shop signs, the content is basic and devoid of any presence.

Similarly an allegory is an explanation by analogy and barely exceeds the didactic illustration.

By cons, symbol, in the spirit of the Church Fathers and by liturgical tradition, contains within it the presence of what it symbolizes. And this "presence" is revealed in contemplation, by which the imagination decrypts the message of the true symbol and captures the real presence as an epiphany.

According to Paul Evdokimov, an Orthodox theologian,
in "The art of the icon, theology of beauty"