Tuminskaia Olga

The images of St. Basil The Great and St. Basil Fool for Christ in integrated iconographic compositions

Abstract

This article studies the pair composition of St. Basil the Great and St. Basil Fool for Christ. The iconographic composition of these two saints came to be wide-spread in icons with the aim of conveying an important point of dogmatic Orthodoxy, namely the sanctity of martyrs. The paper considers the established scheme of placing St. Basil the Great on the left and St. Basil Fool for Christ on the right; they are praying to the Trinity above. This scheme was incorporated in the iconographic practice in Moscow after St. Basil’s Fool for Christ consecration (1588), and already by the late 16th and early 17th centuries it represented an established iconographic image, which was rendered not only in icons but also in other spheres of church art, e.g. served as a pattern in gold-embroidery shops.

Keywords

image of St. Basil the Great, image of St. Basil Fool for Christ, iconographic composition of holy martyrs, semantics, embroidered veil, Synodicon, Missal

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