Hierotopyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Hierotopy (from Ancient Greek: ἱερός, sacred + Ancient Greek: τόπος, place, space) is the creation of sacred spaces, which is viewed as a special form of human creativity, and a related academic field, which spans anthropology, art history and religious studies. The term was coined in 2001 by Russian art-historian and byzantinist Alexei Lidov. Hierotopy accounts not only for artistic images and the symbolic world they form, but also for the entire collection of various media that serve to organize a sacred space. The architectural settings, images and rituals, as well as sounds, perfumes and lighting carve out an immaterial but real space and are collectively referred to as spatial icons. From this perspective, almost all objects of Christian art were originally conceived as elements of hierotopic projects. King Solomon with his Temple, Emperor Justinian, who masterminded the construction of Hagia Sophia, and Abbot Suger, instrumental in the conception of the first Gothic Cathedrals, can be considered as leaders of pivotal hierotopic projects. A few re-creations of the Holy Land in both Western Europe and the Byzantine East are also remarkable examples, the Russian New Jerusalem Monastery complex near Moscow being the largest (50 sq. km).