On the mosaics and frescoes
Ekzonarteks
Area churches are not very large in comparison with other Byzantine buildings, it covers an area of 742.5 m², but its main advantage is not the amount, and in the interior. Inner space of the temple is divided into three major areas: input (two narthex), nave or central part of the temple and the side chapel. The decoration of the church combines two techniques: mosaics and frescoes. In the mural is made pareklession. Rest of the space of the temple walls are decorated with mosaics and marble slabs.
Ekzonarteks a corridor width of 4 m and a length of 23 m. On the south side it has a passage in paraklession, so that there can only be reached through the narthex.
Mosaic ekzonarteksa:
Ekzonarteksa program is mainly devoted to the earth's history of Christ.
Above the entrance to the temple and ualtarnoy barriers on west-east axis placed various images of the Virgin and Child with odnakovo signed "Chora tou achretou" («nevmestimogo container or the space of Togo, who is out of space"), on the one hand, pointed to the miracle Incarnation, when the earth Virgo has contained nevmestimogo God, and with another - claimed a spatial sense of God's existence. These images from the second two mosaic image of Christ in the lunettes above the entrances to the narthex and nave, which is also signed "Chora ton zenton" (translated as "living space"). Perhaps, this inscription is partly determines the iconographic program ekzonarteksa which tells the story of Christ's earthly life.
Some of the stories depicted in ekzonartekse: Son of Joseph and the journey to Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary before the scribes of King Herod
At the time of Emperor Augustus decreed a census throughout the Roman Empire. It was the first census when Quirinius in Syria. Therefore, each went to his hometown to register. Joseph also went up from Galilee town of Nazareth into Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the family of David. He went to the census, with Mary ... (according to the Gospel of Luke).
Christ's birth, Magi before Herod, questions of King Herod, Herod the Order of the Massacre of the Innocents, Massacre of the Innocents.
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