Dr. Julia Matveyeva: "Early Byzantine Baptistery: a special space to dive into Mystery"

Recording of a lecture by Dr. Julia Matveyeva at "Early Byzantine Baptistery: a special space to dive into Mystery". How did the artistic decoration of the baptisteries help people to better experience the sacrament of Baptism? Nowadays we can imagine this by looking at the small pieces of fabric that we find depicted in mosaics but whose real meaning we do not entirely understand their real meaning. During the lecture, I will tell you how these fabrics helped to decode the original meaning of the baptistery's decorations and to feel the sacred space for diving into mystery. A researches, artist, and a historian, Dr. Julia Matveyeva is also an author of a book "DECORATIVE FABRICS IN THE MOSAICS OF RAVENNA: semantics and cultural context".

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Christ is in our midst! This was fascinating. Thank you. Greetings from British Columbia, Canada.