Painting the Likeness over the Image: Reflections on Basil of Caesarea and Diadochus of Photike

Huian, Georgiana (2022). Painting the Likeness over the Image: Reflections on Basil of Caesarea and Diadochus of Photike. In: Knauer, Peter; Riedl, Andrea; Winkler, Dietmar W. (eds.) Patrologie und Ökumene. Theresia Hainthaler zum 75. Geburtstag (pp. 252-260). Freiburg-Basel-Wien: Herder

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The perfect portrait not only depicts but also participates in its model's life. The portrait must resemble the prototype as far as possible and be so vivid as to borrow - or absorb - the model's vivacity. The relationship between painting, human perfection, and life is not merely esthetic; it is a theological matter that is intriguingly illustrated in the Greek Church Fathers' exegesis on the creation of humanity in Genesis. Why is humanity compared to a portrait that has attained the utmost resemblance to God? How does painting as metaphor articulate the patristic doctrine of image and likeness, and how is it positioned at the intersection of Pauline and Platonic vocabulary? The paper addresses these questions while analyzing the painting metaphor in the theology of Basil of Caesarea and Diadochus of Photike.

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