Religious icon of suffering and asceticism

Trubetskoi that Russia has long been considered the ancient icons show asceticism content. People do not understand, there is a statue of the most essential and most important thing - it conveys to the world very happy. There is no doubt included in the icon in the Orthodox ideological aspects were closely linked - pain and idealistic asceticism happiness. This two are the two essential themes icon. However, these two diametrically opposed things - the greatest pain and highest joy is how together in icon in the mystery of what this combination?
The basic tendency of ancient Russian icons is asceticism. 17th century old ritual to send representatives Ava Qom clearly pointed this out. He pointed out that, when the artist painted "Saviour Immanuel like" image, the face is swollen, his lips are red, curly hair, hands are obese. This painting is the enemy Nikon premeditated and support, as if painted portraits of the living. However, the outstanding icon painter of ancient painting is not the case, they have painted saint's face and hands, because of fasting, labor and painful but thin.
Trubetskoi pointed out that its original appearance is people can not enter the temple of God, the people should overcome their fallen nature and penance. The church can not accommodate untrimmed mind and body fat self. Thus, the portrait icon is not living, but the future of humanity into the innocent prototype church. Because these future innocent human beings we are now guilty of the people in the middle is invisible, so the icon is a symbolic depiction. Icon characters lean body means that in order to meet the highest body of the biological purpose doctrine of negation.

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