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Byzantine Painting through Contemporary Eyes
56. The Rothko Room, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
57. Mark Rothko, No. 14, Untitled, 1960, oil on canvas, 289.6 x 266.7 cm (114 x 105), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
58. Descent into Hell (Resurrection), Russian icon, second half of the 13th century, Palazzo Mon- manari Gallery, Vicenza, Intesa Bank collection.
59. MarkRothko,Untitled,1953,temperaonpapermountedonboard,100.3x67.3cm(39.1⁄2x26.1⁄2), private collection.
60. 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. Thenextphaseofourlastvisualdemonstration,showingthesamefresco(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 Pseu- do-Areopagite)
62. The next phase of our last visual demonstration: “...since it is neither number nor order; nor greatness nor smallness; nor equality nor inequality; nor similarity nor dissimilarity;” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
63. The next phase of our last visual demonstration: “...neither is it standing, nor moving, nor at rest; neither has it power nor is power, nor is light; neither does it live nor is it life;” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
64. The next phase of our last visual demonstration: “...neither is it essence, nor eternity nor time;” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
65. Thenextphaseofourlastvisualdemonstration:“...norisitsubjecttointelligiblecontact;”(Ex- cerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
66. The next phase of our last visual demonstration: “...nor is it science nor truth, nor kingship nor wisdom;” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseu- do-Areopagite)
67. The next phase of our last visual demonstration: “ ...neither one nor oneness, nor godhead nor goodness; nor is it spirit according to our understanding, nor filiation, nor paternity; nor any- thing else known to us or to any other beings of the things that are or the things that are not;” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
68. The next phase of our last visual demonstration: “...neither does anything that is know it as it is; nor does it know existing things according to existing knowledge; neither can the reason attain to it, nor name it, nor know it; neither is it darkness nor light, nor the false nor the true;” (Excerpt from the 5th chapter of Mystical Theology written by Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite)
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