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Western theology has, from its origins, showed a certain indifference to dogmatic spiritual significance of sacred art, this iconography that despite his long martyrdom is so revered in the East. But providentially, Western art was behind the theological and until the 12th century it remains faithful to the common tradition in both East and West. This unique tradition lives fully in the magnificent Romanesque art in the miracle of the cathedral of Chartres, in Italian painting, which still cultivates the "maniera bizantina.
But from the 13th century the facticity view, perspective, depth, the play of chiaroscuro, the trompe l'oeil are introduced. If art becomes more refined, it is less likely to direct entry of the transcendent. By breaking with the canons of tradition, art is more integrated into the liturgical mystery . Increasingly autonomous and subjective, he left his "biosphere" heavenly. Garments of the saints no longer feel under the folds the "spiritual body" and the angels appear as beings of flesh and blood. The sacred figures behave exactly like everyone else, dressed and placed in the contemporary atmosphere to the artist. One more step and the biblical account, the miraculous event is more than an opportunity to perform skillfully portrait, anatomy, a landscape.
Paul Evdokimov, 1901-1970, Orthodox theologian
in "Modern Art or Sophia Deconsecrated " online
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