The Byzantine Blachernae and Beloozero: a Probable Example of Sacred Topography

The article considers a probable example of sacred topography, which is the transfer of Blachernae of Constantinople to Beloozero. The author draws iconographic and thematic parallels between the scenes of the Dionysius’s frescoes in the monastery Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin on the one hand, and the venerated images of the Blachernae complex, on the other. In the framework of the topographic concept, the author points out the fundamental and symbolic role of the patrimonial monastery church of the Deposition of the Honourable Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos at Blachernae.

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