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Pseudo-Dionysius and the Post-Iconoclastic Mosaic Programme of Hagia Sophia

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Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900

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This chapter considers Pseudo-Dionysius’ concept of hierarchical order found in his Celestial and Ecclesiastical Hierarchies and its possible impact on the mosaics of Hagia Sophia and other examples of post-iconoclastic Byzantine church decoration. The role eventually played by the writings of Pseudo-Dionysus in church decoration after Iconoclasm has been previously overlooked, probably because little is known about the perception of Dionysius and his works in ninth-century Byzantium. Therefore, this chapter sets out to underline the interest in Dionysius the Areopagite in eighth- and ninth-century Constantinople and Byzantine provinces. It also maintains that re-establishing the veneration of Dionysius the Areopagite as a saint after Iconoclasm stimulated an interest in his works that contributed to their possible appropriation in Byzantine church decoration.

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I would like to thank Francesca Dell’Acqua, Paul Magdalino, and Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi for fruitful discussions and bibliographic references. My thanks also go to Katherine Mersengill for her helpful suggestions and editing.

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Teteriatnikov, N.B. (2020). Pseudo-Dionysius and the Post-Iconoclastic Mosaic Programme of Hagia Sophia. In: Dell’Acqua, F., Mainoldi, E. (eds) Pseudo-Dionysius and Christian Visual Culture, c.500–900. New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24769-0_9

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