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Byzantine Painting through Contemporary Eyes
Demonstration 17
60. Above: The beginning of our last visual demonstration: Resurrection, fresco in the conch of the apse of the chapel of the church of Chora in Constantinople, 14th century.
61. Below: The next phase of our last visual demonstration, showing the same fresco (Resurrection) without the figure of Christ: “That it that is the pre-eminent Cause of all things intelligibly perceived is not itself any of those things. Again, ascending yet higher, we maintain that it is neither soul nor intellect; nor has it imagination, opinion, reason or understanding; nor can it be expressed or conceived,...” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
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