| Title: | Kurbinovo, Church of St. George |
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| Notes: | "The devotional images that flank the opening of the sanctuary, nave, and church acknowledge the thresholds that marked spaces of graduated holiness. Each of the marked spaces has a theological symbolism according to Symeon, archbishop of Thessalonike (1416/17-29), who interprets the tripartite division of a church with regard to audience and the symbolic understanding of space, associating the church, metaphorically, with the Holy Trinity. According to Symeon, the narthex indicates the earth, the nave represents heaven and paradise, and the sanctuary symbolizes heaven and the sphere beyond heaven." (Gerstel, 129) |
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| Date: | 1191 |
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| Building: | St. George Church
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| Object/Function: | Architecture |
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| City/Town: | Kurbinovo
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| Country: | Macedonia
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| Lectionary links: | BProp11
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| General Subject: | Church
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| Attribution: | Kurbinovo, Church of St. George, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54604 [retrieved April 23, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurbinovo_1.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 54604
Last Updated: 2022-07-11 09:42:54
Record Created: 2011-05-30 15:48:24 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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| Bibliographic Source: | Thresholds of the Sacred: Architectural, Art Historical, Liturgical, and Theological Perspectives on Religious Screens, East and West |
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| Author: | Gerstel, Sharon E. J., ed. |
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| Publisher: | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection |
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| Date: | 2007 |
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