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chrysography

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Subject Religion » Christianity

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631232032.2001.x


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Greek, ‘writing in gold’: the linear hatching in gold leaf in icon painting on Christ's garment, and to indicate the divine energies at the transfiguration . Gold generally indicates the presence of divinity, as in, for example, the halo or aureole of a saint. See also assist . ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity



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