Byzantine aesthetics. History angle

The monograph is the most complete conceptual study of the Byzantine aesthetics in its historical perspective in world science, including the Provisant Early Christian period, the history of Byzantine aesthetics from the IV to the middle of the XV century. and Pozhazanti period in the Old Russian culture of the XV-XVII centuries.
On the material of the texts of the largest fathers and teachers of the Church of Vasily the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Athanasius of Alexandria, Dionysius of Areopagita, Maxim the Confessor, John Damaskin, Theodore Studit and several other, Byzantine humanists and Isikhanov, the formation and defined formation and defined formation The development of the basic ideas of the Byzantines about beauty, light, art, image, symbol, allegory, icon, a pronounced aesthetic coloring of many levels of Byzantine theology and liturgical practice was revealed.
Particular attention is paid to the main types of the aesthetic consciousness of the Byzantines: Patristic-Bogoslovsky, antiquian, aesthetics of asceticism, liturgical aesthetics, ecfrasis of works of art.
The role and significance of Byzantine aesthetics for the formation of aesthetic representations and the development of art in ancient Russia is shown