Ikonologie der christlichen Kunst

Since the 6th century, the East has experienced a special development of Christian art. The icon, which represents the holy figure as an image, plays a special role in this. The disputes in the image controversy of the 8th/9th century were of a strongly theoretical nature, but resulted in a ban on Christian images for a long time. After the victory of the proponents of images, a system emerged in the 11th century concerning images in the church interior, but also on the templon (the iconostasis). If Byzantium and the Balkans were the leading regions at first, with the baptism of Russia an area emerged in which the more recent problems - such as the relationship with the West - are fought out to the present day.