Alexei Lidov | Hierotopy

Personal: Lidov’s biography in Wikipedia

Books:

Selected papers:

Hierotopy. The creation of sacred space as a form of creativity and subject of cultural history In: Hierotopy. Creation of Sacred Spaces in Byzantium and Medieval Russia.(foreword) Edited by A. Lidov. Published by “Progress-tradition” in Moscow, 2006, p. 33-58.

Iconicity as Spatial Notion. A New Vision of Icons in Contemporary Art Theory // IKON, 2016-9 (presented at the 9th iconography conference, Rijeka, june 2015).

Spatial Icons. The Miraculous Performance with the Hodegetria of Constantinople In: Hierotopy. Creation of Sacred Spaces in Byzantium and Medieval Russia, ed. A. Lidov, Moscow: “Progress-tradition”, 2006, p. 349 – 372.

The Comparative Hierotopy In: Hierotopy. Comparative studies of sacred spaces (foreword), ed. A. Lidov, Moscow: Indrik, 2008 (Rus/Eng), p. 9-12

New Jerusalems. Transfering of the Holy Land as Generative Matrix of Christian Culture In: New Jerusalems. Hierotopy and iconography of sacred spaces. (foreword). Edited by A. Lidov, published by “Indrik”, Moscow, 2009 (Rus/Eng),p. 8-10.

Air and Heavens as a Subject of the Christian Hierotopy and Iconography. In: Hierotopy of Air and Heavens in culture of the Christian world. (foreword). Edited by A. Lidov, published by “Indrik”, Moscow, 2023 (Rus/Eng), p. 10-13.

‘Image-Paradigms’ as a Category of Mediterranean Visual Culture. A Hierotopic Approach to Art History In: Crossing Cultures. Papers of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art. Melbourne, 2009, p. 148 – 153.

The Holy Fire and Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, East and West. In: Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, Turnhout: Brepolis, 2014, p. 241-249.

Florence as New Jerusalem. The Rite of the Scoppio del Carro and the Annual Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem. In: Florence and the Idea of Jerusalem, 2018, p. 61-80 This paper was prepared as a part of my research project at the Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) where I was invited as a visiting professor in the autumn of 2018. I take this chance to express my deep gratitude to all the friends and colleagues there who created most stimulating atmosphere for my studies at I Tatti.

Icons Made of Relics. Creating Holy Matter in Byzantium. In: RES Anthropology and Aesthetics, 75/76 (2021), pp.91-100 (publication by Harvard University)

The Byzantine World and Performative Spaces In: Spatial icons. Performativity in Byzantium and Medieval Russia (foreword), ed. A. Lidov, Moscow: Indrik, 2011, p. 17-26.

A Byzantine Jerusalem.The Imperial Pharos Chapel as the Holy Sepulchre In: Jerusalem as Narrative Space, ed. Annette Hoffmann and Gerhard Wolf, Leiden, Boston: Koninklijke Brill, 2012, pp. 63-104.

The Whirling Church. Iconic as Performative in Byzantine Spatial Icons In: Spatial icons. Performativity in Byzantium and Medieval Russia, ed. A. Lidov, Moscow: Indrik, 2011, (Rus/Eng), p. 40-51.

Sacred Waters in Ecclesiastical Space. The Rivers of Paradise as an Image-paradigm of Byzantine Hierotopy // Holy Water in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World / ed. A. Lidov, Moscow: Theoria, 2017, pp. 159-183.

Kavod — Doxa — Slava Bozhiia. The Luminous Cloud as a Spatial Icon of the Heavens in Byzantine Church Domes // Hierotopy of Air and Heavens in Culture of the Christian World / ed. A. Lidov, Moscow: Theoria, 2023, pp. 17-39.

Creator of Sacred Space as a Phenomenon of Byzantine Culture. In: L’artista a Bisanzio e nel mondo cristiano-orientale, ed. Michele Bacci, Pisa, 2003, p. 135-176

Holy Face, Holy Script, Holy Gate. Revealing the Edessa paradigm in Christian imagery. In: Intorno al Sacro Volto, ed. A.Calderoni Mazetti, C. Dufour Bozzo, G. Wolf. Venezia, 2007, pp.145-162

The Flying Hodegetria. The Miraculous Icon as Bearer of Sacred Space. In: The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. E. Thunoe and G. Wolf. Rome 2004, pp. 291-321.

Heavenly Jerusalem. The Byzantine Approach. In: Jewish art, Jerusalem, 1998, pp.340 – 353

Leo the Wise and the Miraculous Icons in Hagia Sophia. In: The Heroes of the Orthodox Church. The New Saints, 8th to 16th century. Ed. E. Kountura-Galaki. Athens, 2004

Christ as Priest in Byzantine church decoration of the 11th and 12th centuries. In: Acts. XVIIIth International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Selected Papers. Moscow,1991. Vol.III: Art History,Architecture, Music. Shepherdstown, WV, 1996, pp.158-170

The Canopy over the Holy Sepulchre. On the Origin of Onion-Shaped Domes.. In: Jerusalem in Russian Culture, ed. A. Batalov and A.Lidov. New York – Athens, 2005, pp.171-180 (Russian version) (Italian version)

The Russian Mandylion: The Images of Christ ‘Not-Made-by-Hands’ in the Art and Culture of Medieval Rus’ from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Centuries . In: Recent Studies on the Image of Edessa: Iconography, History and Theology. (ed. Mark Guscin), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, pp.165-192 (with Lilya Evseeva).

Lidov’s lectures:

The creation of sacred spaces (Rus)

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