Similarly, the blue garment of the central angel is opaque and built up with layers, but the two side angels’ garments are transparent with touches of white. The angels on the sides, in contrast, are drawn with a gentle, calm movement. In the Trinity icon, the drawing of the central angel’s garment is very geometric. His intention was to create harmony and unity through perfect contours and lines. For Rublev, the drawing-design dominated the process of icon writing. The essential nature of the icon is that it is the expression of Christian revelation. Their transparency reflects harmony of matter and mind. Rublev’s icons appear to be more natural than those of the Palaeologue period. The term “dymon pisano”, meaning transparent like a cloud”, is sometimes used to describe this technique.
In the icon of the Trinity, Rublev preferred transparent colors in blue-green tones that he combined with the technique of scumbling to achieve a luminous presence that also speaks to the heavenly nature of the three angels.
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Chapter one describes the general concept of the Old Western Men, including how it confronted secular modernity by attempting to reconcile mind with matter as part of an intellectual via media (middle way) it will also examine the importance that some intellectuals invested in the concept of imaginative understanding. locates such a revival within a broader ‘religious mode of response’ to modernity, which such men of letters as Lewis believed to be fundamentally materialistic meaning that modernity denied the existence of an objective spiritual reality. identification of the Old Western Men to a broader spectrum of intellectuals and artists, previously referred to, more narrowly, as the ‘Catholic literary revival’. This thesis’s unique contribution to the current literature is that it applies Lewis’s. In this sense, he was in opposition to it as a Christian. Modernity, he believed, was essentially secular, unlike what had preceded it. Lewis, who used this term to assert the presence of a ‘Great Divide’ in history. This thesis forwards the concept of the ‘Old Western Men’, a phrase borrowed from C.
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