Colourful sparkles of imaginary vistas: Saintly beauty in the eyes of the beholder

Abstract

The article deals with the issue of physical appearance of the saintly images in Byzantine painting and the manners of its conception. In that regard, the paper offers categorization of the portraiture in which different saints receive distinctive aesthetic code appropriate to their type of “attractiveness”.

Keywords

• beauty
• saintly images
• categories of saints
• warriors
• bishops
• Holy Healers
• martyrs
• female saints