AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF FRESCO AND SNAKY FRESCO, WHICH FOUND IN THE SNAKY CHURCH IN AKSARAY IHLARA VALLEY Cover Image

AKSARAY IHLARA VADİSİNDEKİ YILANLI KİLİSE’DE BULUNAN YILANLI FRESKO VE FRESKO’NUN ESTETİK ANALİZİ
AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF FRESCO AND SNAKY FRESCO, WHICH FOUND IN THE SNAKY CHURCH IN AKSARAY IHLARA VALLEY

Author(s): Banu DAVUN, Yusuf Albayrak
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Visual Arts, Aesthetics, History of Art
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: Aksaray; Ihlara; Church; Serpentine Church; Snake; Fresco; Aesthetics;

Summary/Abstract: From the 4th AD, some Christian clergymen started to come to Göreme, Güzelyurt and Belisırma in Aksaray and Cappadocia regions and made these places a religiously important area. They needed a place where they could realized their religious ceremonies in the Ihlara Valley, share the bread and wine symbolizing the flesh and blood of Christ and be baptized, and they continued their lives in these places by building churches for this purpose. Dictionary meaning of the word church is the place of worship. Church architecture has developed in different forms and plan types. Churches, which are generally built with domes and cross plans, have appeared in different plan types since the early periods when Christianity started to develop. They made frescos mostly containing religious scenes on the walls of churches. Fresco is a wall painting technique using water-soluble paint pigments on wet plaster. It is a painting technique made directly on the rock with red ocher. With this technique, bedrock is used as a background. One of the churches where wall paintings are made is the Serpentine Church located in the Ihlara valley. In the wall paintings in the church. There are ascension to Sky, Child Jesus with Mariam and Bishop Chrysostomos, the Roman Emperor Constantine and his mother Helene, the death of Mary, be buried of the Egyptian Mariam, Daniel is Between the Arslans, The Last Dinner, and the Crucifixion, Jesus who seat cross-legged between Cebrail and Mikhail, the last judgment scenes and four women who have been attacked by snakes.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 285-302
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish