Bychkov, V. V. Hesychasm mysticism as the origins of the Byzantine Old Russian aesthetics

Abstract: Being the mystical core of Christianity and meaning full concentration on one’s inner world, Hesychasm considerably influenced aesthetics in Byzantine and Old Russia. In particular, it gave rise to such a spiritual and aesthetical phenomena of Orthodoxy as the icon, the object and the intermediary of a praying meditation, with its peculiar artistic language based on luminescence, bright array of local colors, original disposal of artistic space, and etc. The article is devoted to the aspects of Hesychasm which particularly contributed to forming an aesthetical peculiarity of the Byzantine Old Russian culture.

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