Pantocrator Christ

The Christ Pantocrator is a mode of representation of Jesus Christ in the Art. It is about a representation Eschatologique, Christ being then regarded as the judge of the last Jugement.

Etymology

Christ of the Greek Christos χριστός meaning gilded the , indicates in the beginning the Chrysalide Holométabole S thus referring to the Résurrection by the Parabole of the Métamorphose of the Insecte S).
Pentocrator always of the Greek, Παντοκράτωρ translated by Very powerful , side Παν meaning all , Kratôr κράτωρ meaning command, direction, capacity .

Iconography

In general, Christ pantocrator is represented in bust, bearded with the long hair. It holds a book and outlines a gesture of blessing, two fingers being tended to symbolize double nature, human and divine, of Christ and three other joints to appear the Trinité. The difficulty for the artists of the time was indeed to manage to represent the human nature of Christ revealing the nature crowned of God through his face. It is in general old of about thirty years in its religious representations.

History

The first Pantocrator Christ found date of the 6th century and is preserved at the Monastère Holy-Catherine of the Sinai in Egypt. The realism of the figuration surprises compared to works dating from the Moyen-âge. The model of Pantocrator Christ is spread as from the 9th century, and remains especially used in the Byzantine Art, that it is in architectures or on icon S. ----

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