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13. Left: Spiral Diagram, pencil on paper, 23 x 16 cm. Author: Uroš T. Todorović (2010).
The diagram represents Malevich’s Late Byzantine experience by interconnecting four particular points of art history: Malevich’s Self Portrait (c.1910), Christ the Pantokrator at Daphni (c.1080), the traditional iconographical theme of the Virgin Hodigitria – common to the period of Late Byzantine art,
and Malevich’s Black Square (1915).
14. Right: Detail from the 14th century fresco of the Second Coming, at the chapel of the church of Chora in Constantinople: The angel of the eschaton is depicted to be both unfolding and rolling up the scroll of time.
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