ORTHODOX THEOLOGY AND SACRED ART IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE IN IX-XIII CENTURIES
ORTHODOX THEOLOGY AND SACRED ART IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE IN IX-XIII CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: The solemn proclamation of the triumph of the iconoclastic theology over the iconoclastic heresy on the first Sunday of Great Lent, in the year 843, did not represent the final defeat of the iconoclasts and did not bring church peace, much desired after more than a century of iconoclastic persecution. The essential role in the acquisition of this state of affairs fell to the Patriarch Photius, who had the wisdom to obtain from all the Eastern Patriarchs the proclamation of the Second Council of Constantinople as the VIIth Ecumenical Council, which led not only to the defeat definitive end of iconoclasm, but also to the development of Byzantine iconography. The present study aims to shed light on the ecclesiastical andt heological activity through which Patriarch Photius contributed to the pacification of the Church by the definitive defeat of iconoclasm and to the establishment of the canon of Orthodox sacred art by crystallization of the iconographic program and the Byzantine style.

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