Vizualinės sakralinio centro išraiškos rytų ir vakarų kultūrose
Visual expression of sacral center in east and west cultures

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the material heritage of traditional culture. Sacral center is as an example of verbal and written culture, one of mythic contemplation reconstruction clue, helping to unfold not only religious character and hierarchy of the image, but also analogous elements, typical for different traditions. Purposes of this article: 1. To reveal the particularity of space and time of mythical conception and its expressive geometrical symbol; to do the analysis of structural expression of sacral center element; 2. To discuss visual images of East and West cultures; to pay attention to comparison of shrines and columnar memorial sacral symbols system. Visual type of sacral center are discussed by adopting parametre of spatial form, id est., separate the forms of architectonic, columnar and planar (figurative) art. As far as the theme is very broad, it is chosen to emphasize the aspect of derivation, structure and symbolical meaning, comparative cosmological analysis of sacral buildings symbolism in two externally different cultures (later period shrine in India and medieval period Christian church in West Europe).

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